[[alternative]]The educational implications of Paul Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of Self

[[abstract]]The purpose of this essay is on the educational implications of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Self. For understand deeply the foundations of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Self, this essay first concerns the life, works and academic background of Ricoeur. Secondly, this essay analyzes Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic of Self by his interpretation of human actions and ethic and moral dimensions of human self. Lastly, this essay finds the educational implication of Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics of Self by the consequence of analysis above. According to the analysis above, the conclusions of this essay is: 1. What Ricoeur’s philosophical concerns is focus on the dimension of human self. 2. It is Ricoeur’s view that the interpretations of human actions must be on agent himself. 3. On Ricoeur point, human moral actions must realize by Kant’s moral views of formalism and Aristotle’s moral views of teleology. 4. From Ricoeur’s analysis of human self, we can understand the analysis of educational actions must on the relations of education between flesh, other and conscience. 5. From Ricoeur’s analysis of human moral actions, we can understand the practice of moral education must be inclusive of human emotion. According the conclusions above, this essay gives the suggestions below: 1. The research of educational action must be on agent of educational action. 2. Educational research must be focus on emotional dimensions of human actions 3. Moral education must emphasize on development of moral practice. 4. The reflections to narration benefit for practices of moral education.