The Responsibility in Paul Ricoeur

The present study aims to analyze the term ‘responsibility’ in P. Ricoeur. We say ‘term’ in the strong sense of the word, because our research develops a treatment of it from the philosophy of action as conceived by Ricoeur, with a notorious analytical imprint, to progressively reach the study of responsibility under a moral plane. Thus we will first review the notion of agent and its relation to action; Secondly, we will deal with the intention-action relationship in order to obtain the notion of responsibility in terms of the philosophy of action; And we will end with an approach to the responsibility considered from the philosophy of action towards ethics.