explain free will related in the nature of things in relation to Ricour's philosophy?

Answer 1

Much of Ricouer's work deals with the idea of the 'self' - with the question "Who am I?" and the resulting fallout with the answers he finds.

Ultimately, he decided that each person is caught between two worlds - the deterministic world and the world of the will.

For example, we have bodies. The bodies are, in a sense, seperate from our 'self' in that we can cause things to happen to it, but in another sense completely indistinguishable from our 'self' in that we are subject to its senses and weaknesses, usually whether we wish them or not.

So in order to operate in the deterministic world, we have to understand it. We see what will happen if there is no intervention, and our existance is part of those things.

And here is where the important part of the self or free will lies: in that a being believes that he can DEFY causality and that he does so by making different things happen. The kinds of choices you make may be limited by causality, but Ricoer denies that the will is part of the causality specifically because it CHANGES causality.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

I am reluctant to do your Homework for you but look to the concept that all free will is relative to frame-work through which it is exercised. For example if you were raised a Jew you would have been inculcated to i.e. only marry a Jew, and consequently your Free Will is exerted only so far as your frame of ultimate reference allows you excercise it. Catch 22.

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