Hope and the Embodied Will for Life. Revisiting Paul Ricœur’s Original Affirmation through a Dialectic of Actuality and Potentiality
With his notion of original affirmation, Paul Ricoeur wishes to reinstate the primacy of being over nothingness, joy over anguish, and affirmation over negation. Having adopted the term from Jean Nabert, he draws from the tradition of French reflective philosophy to formulate his conception of the originally affirmative nature of existence. Ricoeur argues that positive values can be found in and t
