October 7th - Session 2

Presentations and Live Round tables

Session 2 - Michael Johnson, Cristina Vendra, and Sebastian Purcell

Moderator: John Arthos

Michael Johnson

The Eikon and the Phantasma: Some Platonic Roots of Ricoeur’s Notion of the Social Imaginary

Michael offered a second part of this presentation that is available here, and the text of his presentation for additional references.

Cristina Vendra

Tradition, Authority and Critique: Reconsidering Paul Ricœur’s Mediation in the Gadamer-Habermas Debate

Sebastian Purcell

Hermeneutic, Comparative and Syncretic Philosophy, or On Paul Ricoeur and Aztec Philosophy