Volume 5, 2016
Ethics and Environment / Éthique et environment
Jean-Luc Amalric
Pages 233-250
L 'articulation de l'éthique et du politique dans l'horizon d'une philosophie de l'acte (2e partie)
The aim of this paper is to show the anthropological resources of Ricceur’s philosophy of the act, in order to elaborate a living articulation of ethics and politics that avoids the deadlock which represents the idea of a complete divorce between moral idealism and political realism. In this second part, it defends the thesis that the reconquest of an “ethical-political teleology” is only possible to the extent that, in Ricceur, the reappropriation of the “ethical originary affirmation” takes a radically critical form. Then it tries to show how this critical approach is likely to lead to a release of the mediating power of social imaginary, which always complements and precedes our acts.