Implikacje narracyjnej koncepcji tożsamości Paula Ricoeura
Implications of Paul Ricoeur’s Narrative Conception of Identity

Summary/Abstract: The narrative concept of identity presented by Paul Ricoeur places embraces a far wider perspective than the perspective of people’s identity in time alone, understood as the subject’s identity in time t1 and time t2. For Ricouer’s conception speaks not only of being the same or being exactly the same but also of being oneself. Being oneself is a challenge characteristic only of human beings, a challenge thrown down against time, by which the subject – despite the changes that accompany him or her – remains itself. Yet it is possible to take Ricoeur’s thought even further, and to say that being oneself is a realisation of a personal, unique ethos given in an enactment in being. This enactment in being includes the background of roots in history, tradition, culture and also, most of all, individualised reference to God.

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