Recognition in Paul Ricoeur: Identification of mutual recognition

The intention of Ricoeur (1913-2005) in the work The Course of Recognition is to establish the debate about the concept of recognition, designed to provide a route for passage of recognition as (a) epistemological notion while identification, (b) the recognition as an anthropological capacity for the recognition of self, to finally, (c) the recognition as a political notion. Among the three levels of recognition we will analyze during the text, the aspect that characterizes the denial of recognition in the Hobbes philosophy, in which the individual is not recognized for what it is, but according to the goals of survival. In understanding of Ricoeur the reality of the nature state (fear, uncertainty and mistrust) described in the hobbesian political theory, slows the whole understanding relational of recognition. The present work shows that in the intention of establishing a mutual recognition, Ricoeur points to a recognition of the gift marked by intersubjective relationship. Adapted from the source document.