The attention of the solicitude

Authors

  • Patricio Mena Malet Universidad de la Frontera

Abstract

The following paper seeks to interrogate the attentional dimension of human existence from the contributions made by Paul Ricoeur in his early phenomenological work. Along with this, we propose to complement the ethic of solicitude developed by him in his main work Soi-même comme un autre with a phenomenology of attention. In our opinion, this could allow to obtain an understanding rooted in the human experience which is lacking in the analysis of solicitude proposed by Ricoeur.

Keywords:

Ricoeur, attention, solicitude, availability, ethical watch