Geoffrey Dierckxsens obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Antwerp
Preface
Part One: Ipseity
Chapter 1: Language and Understanding the Concept of Responsibility
Chapter 2: Feelings and the Causes of Moral Nature
Chapter 3: Lived Existence and the Motives of Moral Life
Part Two: Alterity
Chapter 4: Moral Communities and Others
Chapter 5: Sense and the Metaphysical Relation with the Other
Chapter 6: Desire and Responsibility for the Other
Part Three: Evil and Narrativity
Chapter 7: Violence and the Ambiguity of Justice
Chapter 8: The Narrative and the Possibility of Moral Critique
Epilogue
This book examines Paul Ricœur's moral anthropology. It shows that his hermeneutical approach to responsibility and justice, focusing on the analysis of the singularity of lived existence, complements recent developments in moral philosophy that tend toward moral relativism and understand responsibility and justice in naturalistic terms.