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A Formation of critical phronesis through the encounter between suffer of a text and real suffering: An encounter between a ‘narrative’ of Job and ‘stories’ of Sewol ferry accident through the concept of Paul Ricoeur’s configuration

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ABSTRACT

This article aims to find ethical point by exploring the interpretation of Book of Job. People regard the Book of Job as a ‘Suffer narrative’. We intended to connect this narrative to the ‘stories’ of the accident of Sewol ferry. In this article, the concept of ‘narrative’ and ‘stories’, ‘suffer’ and ‘suffering’ is differentiated. We used the theory of Paul Ricoeur’s configuration. In the theory of configuration, there are three areas: configuration, preconfiguration and reconfiguration. In the area of configuration, we examined the difference of thought about understanding suffer by Job and Job’s friends. Then, in the area of preconfiguration, we explained the theory of theodicy to understand the consideration of suffer by Job’s friends. Also, we considered the thinking of Dorothee Soelle’s understanding of suffer and suffering. She opposed the theory of theodicy. In the area of reconfiguration, we explained Ricoeur’s critical phronesis.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.