Key Arguments

• Ricoeur begins by linking justice to the very notion of the other: 'The fact that the aim of living well in a way encompasses the sense of justice is implied in the very notion of the other. The other is also other than the "you." Correlatively, justice extends further than face-to-face encounters.'
• He formulates two core assertions: 'according to the first, living well is not limited to interpersonal relations but extends to the life of institutions. Following the second, justice presents ethical features that are not con tained in solicitude, essentially a requirement of equality.'
• The investigation into this third component will focus on 'The institution as the point of application of justice and equality as the ethical content of the sense of justice', and this will result in 'a new determination of the self, that of "each": to each, his or her rights.'
• By characterizing institutions as the point where justice applies, Ricoeur indicates that ethical concern must move from dyadic 'I–you' relations to structures of 'living to gether as this belongs to a historical community — people, nation, region, and so forth.'

Source Quotes

3. ... in Just Institutions The fact that the aim of living well in a way encompasses the sense of justice is implied in the very notion of the other. The other is also other than the "you."

3. ... in Just Institutions The fact that the aim of living well in a way encompasses the sense of justice is implied in the very notion of the other. The other is also other than the "you." Correlatively, justice extends further than face-to-face encounters. Two assertions are involved here: according to the first, living well is not limited to interpersonal relations but extends to the life of institutions.

Correlatively, justice extends further than face-to-face encounters. Two assertions are involved here: according to the first, living well is not limited to interpersonal relations but extends to the life of institutions. Following the second, justice presents ethical features that are not con tained in solicitude, essentially a requirement of equality. The institution as the point of application of justice and equality as the ethical content of the sense of justice arc the two issues of the investigation into the third component of the ethical aim.

Following the second, justice presents ethical features that are not con tained in solicitude, essentially a requirement of equality. The institution as the point of application of justice and equality as the ethical content of the sense of justice arc the two issues of the investigation into the third component of the ethical aim. From this twofold inquiry will result a new determination of the self, that of "each": to each, his or her rights.

The institution as the point of application of justice and equality as the ethical content of the sense of justice arc the two issues of the investigation into the third component of the ethical aim. From this twofold inquiry will result a new determination of the self, that of "each": to each, his or her rights. By "institution," we arc to understand here the structure of living to gether as this belongs to a historical community — people, nation, region, and so forth — a structure irreducible to interpersonal relations and yet bound up with these in a remarkable sense which the notion of distribu tion will permit us later to clarify.

Key Concepts

• 3. ... in Just Institutions
• The fact that the aim of living well in a way encompasses the sense of justice is implied in the very notion of the other. The other is also other than the "you." Correlatively, justice extends further than face-to-face encounters.
• according to the first, living well is not limited to interpersonal relations but extends to the life of institutions. Following the second, justice presents ethical features that are not con tained in solicitude, essentially a requirement of equality.
• The institution as the point of application of justice and equality as the ethical content of the sense of justice arc the two issues of the investigation into the third component of the ethical aim.
• From this twofold inquiry will result a new determination of the self, that of "each": to each, his or her rights.

Context

Opening paragraphs of subsection '3. ... in Just Institutions', where Ricoeur introduces the third term of his ethical formula 'aiming at the "good life" with and for others, in just institutions' and specifies why justice and institutions must be thematized beyond solicitude.