The Speculative Solution to the Aporia of Temporality and the Meaning of Being

• Autor: Lythgoe, Esteban
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Repositorio: Revistas - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/32981
• Enlace del recurso: http://revistas.pucp.edu.pe/index.php/arete/article/view/32981
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: potentiality; conatus; care; death; substantialism; potencia; cuidado; muerte; sustancialismo

This paper explains the process by which Ricoeur applied the Aristotelian ontology of actuality and potentiality to his own hermeneutics, and how this development enabled him to find a speculative solution to the aporetics of time. I identify two alternative solutions within this process: the poetic solution presented in Time and Narrative and the speculative solution developed in Memory, History, Forgetting. Although the existential analytic plays a significant role in both solutions, I argue that the shift of perspective between these works was a result of the introduction of Spinoza’s concept of conatus.