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The Place of Christian Ethics through the Tension between Love and Justice: The Understanding of Love and Justice through Paul Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Ethics

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2015, (33), pp.141-175
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

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ABSTRACT

This article aims first to explore the possibility of the union between love and justice, and later to show the possibility of the creation of the Christian ethic subject through the Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic. Christian Love, Agape, has been mostly understood as the opposite of distributive justice, which represents the economic equality. Ricoeur insisted that love should combined with justice. Ricoeur argued that we must resist to establish the ‘feature of moral judgement’ suggested by Gene Outka. He thought that we could obtain the concept of love through the interpretation of discourse. According to Ricoeur, the discourse of love has three characteristics: praise, the imperative command, and metaphor. Ricoeur accepted the justice theory by John Rawls as a discourse of justice. Ricoeur regarded anti-utilitarianism as the justice theory. Ricoeur attempted to unify love and justice dialectically. He pursued the reconciliation between the logic of equivalence, illustrated by the golden rule, and the logic of superabundance, incarnated in the new commandment. He thought that the commandment of love does not abolish the golden rule, but instead reinterprets it in terms of generosity. Ricoeur insisted that people could appreciate the new self before the newly interpreted text. This new interpreted text can be regarded as a turning point in creating the new Christian ethic subject..

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