The paper discusses Paul Ricoeur’s thought, in different moments of his work, on the question of justice. It focuses on Ricoeur’s reading of Rawls’s Theory of justice in several articles written in the nineties. From there he moves to Soi-même comme un autre, to Le Juste (1995), to Le Juste 2 (2001). The goal of my study is note a tension, which in the very tension that Ricoeur calls “stadium of pratical wisdom” and which stands in a dialectical relation to the field of law. But there being a “paradox” whitin the “political” brings Ricoeur to raise his attention at a higher level. In Parcours de la reconnaissance (2004), a text that I have not treated intentionality, he offers the reader further stimuli for reflection.
