The Meeting as a theological category from the book "Oneself as Another" by Paul Ricoeur

Authors

  • Maria Alves Viana Mestranda em Teologia Sistemática pela PUC/SP

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2177-952X.2016v10i17p222-231

Keywords:

Meeting, Otherness, Other, Dialogue, Ethic

Abstract

The Meeting, as a theological category from Paul Ricoeur’s book causes a reflection on the Being. The identity that is built on otherness in relation to the other which meets another deeper himself and the understanding of himself requires acceptance of himself as hopelessly another. The meeting is a key experience that enables the growth of the being through the other, it is dialogue experience, donation and constitutive reception of the history of being, which refers to the search for the transcendent. In this dynamic there is the appropriation of different realities that allow the reformulation of something new. Hardly someone goes out a meeting in the same way. Another important aspect is the fertility of otherness that prints an ethical-theological reflection, a call for acceptance of diversity and respect for others, which allows the realization of justice.

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