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| | Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
 | | Within the dialectic, the terms maintain their differences at the same time that a common "ground" is formed. |
 | | This is a foundational dialectic for him, and so, as might be expected, it structures his discussions and dissections of every field of philosophy he enters: selfhood, justice, love, morality, personal identity, knowledge, time, language, metaphor, action, aesthetics, metaphysics, and so on. |
 | | Subjectivity, or selfhood, is for Ricoeur, a dialectic of activity and passivity because we are beings with a "double nature," structured along the fault lines of the voluntary and the involuntary, beings given to ourselves as something to be known. |
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