Discussing Ricoeur’s and Husserl’s notion of alterity

Abstract

We discuss Husserl’s conception of alterity approached in the Fifth Cartesian Medidation from a ricoeurian perspective. We also discuss Ricoeur’s proposition which puts alterity at the core of ipseity. When Ricouer thinks about alterity, he follows the evolution of Husserl’s thought and intends to understand the ways that conducts from me (ego) to theother (alter) through the world in which we are inserted as a community. The ricouerian statement on subjectivity (ipseity) constantly presupposes the relation self-other-world. Therefore according to the French philosopher, to seek husserlian understanding of alterity contributes not only to face his own thought, but also to deepen his relational conception on human condition.