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Ricoeur begins by arguing that we do not have direct access to our selves; we must talk about ourselves. He analyzes how we use pronouns (like "I" and "You") and how we construct narratives. This introduces his famous concept of Narrative Identity . We understand our lives not as a series of disconnected fragments, but as a story with a beginning, middle, and end. The plot of our life is what holds our changing idem and ipse together. paul ricoeur oneself as another pdf
"Who is speaking?" "Who is acting?" "Who is the author of this story?" The answer is never a static object, but a dynamic subject caught in a web of relations. : Document previews and full text available with