Conatus and Freedom: Crime, Penalty, Punishment in Paul Ricoeur. For a Conceptual Genealogy

Abstract

The aim of this inquiry is the reconstruction of a hermeneutic circularity among some of the purely psychological categories of Paul Ricoeur's elaboration and the key concepts of his moral, legal and political analysis. This is trying to highlight the theories and the intellectual comparisons of the theoretical aspects of Ricoeur, finding its results in a more explicitly legal-social context, in an excursus aimed at the hypothesis of a categorical rhizomatic foundation of Paul Ricoeur's political thought.

Keywords

• Ricoeur
• Soggettività
• Responsabilità
• Imputabilità
• Sanzione