La filosofia come “ermeneutica della condizione umana”. Armando Rigobello e Paul Ricoeur

In the paper it is analyzed Armando Rigobello’s critical comparison with the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur. We have highlighted that Rigobello and Ricoeur intend the philosophy as “hermeneutics of the human condition.” Rigobello and Ricoeur interpret the Freudian psychoanalysis as “archeology of the subject.” In opposition to Freudian psychoanalysis, they propose a teleological conception of human action. They develop a “philosophy of freedom,” and a hermeneutics of the subject based on human capabilities. Rigobello has particularly underlined that Ricoeur’s main intention is to develop a complex ontology of homo capax. According to the French philosopher, to exist is to act: speaking, doing, telling, and assuming responsibility for the act commetted. The very “being” of human beings is to act and the effort to be. In this perspective, the human interiority is considered as dynamic production (enérgeia, conatus). According to Rigobello, being as act and potentiality is the dominant meta-category that governs Ricoeur’s philosphical anthropology. In the last part of our paper, we have analyzed Rigobello’s interpretation of Ricoeur’s work Oneself as Another (1990), in which the French philosopher deals with the problem of selfhood in the context of contemporary discussions of “otherness.”