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Ricoeur on Perspective: Understanding ourselves as Relational and Dialogical Beings

Ferdinand D. Dagmang

Discipline: Philosophy

 

Abstract:

This study deals with the cognitive, affective, and practical aspects of perspective. Paul Ricoeur’s analysis of perspective in Fallible manassists the course of this study which will show that plurality in perspectives is inherent in nature and that the natural embeddedness of people in perspectives is characterized by tensions between the legitimacy and illegitimacy, closedness and openness, and fallibility and infallibility of perspectives. The idealized requirements of the expansive language of relations and dialogue will always face these tensions that are naturally built into the ways of humans.