The book follows a "Kantian architecture," using transcendental analysis to explore three levels of human mediation: Finite Pole Infinite Pole Mediation (Third Term) Perspective Meaning/Verb Imagination (The "Schema") Practical Person (Respect) Affective Vital Feeling Spiritual Love Feeling ( Thymos ) A Companion to Ricoeur's Fallible Man - Bloomsbury
Paul Ricoeur's (1960) is a pivotal work in his early trilogy, The Philosophy of the Will . It transitions from the descriptive "pure" phenomenology of his first volume to an investigation of the "bad will," asking why evil is a possibility for human beings. Core Thesis: The Disproportion of Man Fallible Man: Philosophy of the Will (Ricoeur, ...
Ricoeur argues that humans are "intermediate" beings existing in a state of —a fundamental gap between our finite and infinite dimensions. This fragility makes us "fallible," or capable of failing and doing evil, though fallibility itself is not yet the act of evil. This fragility makes us "fallible," or capable of