ONTOLOGICAL INCIDENCES IN THE THEMES OF IDENTITY AND RELATION IN PAUL RICOEUR

Abstract

This article deals with the themes of identity and relation in Paul Ricoeur, seeking to show their ontological incidences. To do so, we will present Ricoeur’s readings of Plato and Aristotle and how, based on them, we can say that identity and relation, in our author, are metacategories, that iso, expressions that lead us to a thought about being, while history of being (metaphysics) or thought about a specific being (ontology). It is well known that the valuable theory of identity developed by Ricoeur is markedly phenomenological, linguistic and hermeneutic. With this exposition, we want to show that this same theory has ontological incidences, that iso, they point to characteristics of depth and/or altitude that favor the elaboration of an ontological discourse.

Keywords: Metaphysics. Identity. Relation. Ontology.