The hermeneutics in Paul Ricoeur

Abstract

In this article we will outline the stages that Paul Ricoeur runs in the elaboration of his hermeneutic philosophy. From a personal perspective, early suggests leaving ‘the short path’ of selfreflexivity ‘cogito’ with their ‘cogitata’, to build an abstract awareness referred to ideals. In order to understand in depth the being of man intends to, instead, find its meaning in cultural Works that is disseminated. This is ‘the long road’: will start moving with the ‘existential phenomenology’, which reflects on the dialectic between the voluntary and the involuntary in the man; continuing this course with ‘simbolic hermeneutics’ that he mades from the myths about evil, the psychoanalytic archaeology, idealistic theology and the phenomenology of religion. Ending with ‘textual hermeneutics’, in which you trust the sense of being of man and of the entities that are not the man to an intertextual traidition.