L'identité entre phénoménologie de la mémoire et éthique de la reconnaissance selon Paul Ricoeur

This study seeks to follow the intellectual path of Paul Ricoeur at grips with the notion of identity, against the backdrop of his detailed readings of the philosophy of John Locke. Onesetf as Another (1990) and Memory, History, Forgetting (2000) are at the heart of the topic. Thanks to a new translation into French of the treatise Of Identity and Diversity (by Balibar, 1998), it is shown how Locke is fully situated in the perspective of a phenomenology of the memory. The article also studies certain aspects of The Course of Recognition (2004), the last great work of the philosopher returning to this topic. Thus it is observed how Ricoeur grants to Locke's theory of the quest for the temporal meaning of identity a choice place in the development of a hermeneutics of the self, and how he leads the reader to the heart of a central inquiry, that of the capacity of a person to establish a relationship to himself/herself (transl. by J. Dudley)