Gaëlle Fiasse
Associate Professor;
Joint appointment with The School of Religious Studies
Visiting Scholar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2022-2024), University of Ottawa
University of Louvain (UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve), Belgium
PhD, Philosophy, 2002 (summa cum laude)
MA, Philosophy, 1998
BA, Classical Philology, 1998
BA, Philosophy, 1995
Fulbright fellow, CUA (Washington, D.C.), 2001-2002
In terms of the history of philosophy and ethics, Prof. Fiasse is a specialist in Aristotle and Paul Ricœur. She is one of the Canadian correspondents for the .
In the department of philosophy, she teaches ancient philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, Stoicism) and contemporary European philosophy (Paul Ricœur, Hannah Arendt, Vladimir Jankélévitch, Jacques Derrida). In religious studies, she is responsible for the program in bioethics and she also uses her philosophical approach to study personal relationships in Christianity (Augustine, Aquinas, Kierkegaard, Martin Luther King) and Christian mysticism.
Her major research, as well as her different publications and collaborations, concentrates on the interpersonal relationship as a core element in the foundation of morality. This particular approach to ethics focuses on the relationship with another person as playing a central role for the will and for the development of meanings and values. The themes that she examines are friendship, otherness, justice, forgiveness (FQRSC 2008-2011), and fragility (SSHRC 2009-2013).
Her last book is on Love and Fragility. For the next coming years, she will focus on the role of imagination, the relationship between ethics and hermeneutics, the ethical acts between the voluntary and the involuntary (with the notion of consent).
Ancient Philosophy (Ethics and Metaphysics)
Contemporary Ethics (Paul Ricoeur)
Theological Ethics and Christian Spirituality (School of Religious Studies)
Books
, Québec, Presses Universitaires de Laval, 2015; Paris, Hermann, 2016.
, ed. Gaëlle Fiasse.Paris: Presses Universitaires de France (Débats philosophiques), 2008. [Articles from Jeffrey Andrew Barash, Jean Grondin, Johann Michel, Alain Thomasset, Gaëlle Fiasse, Richard Kearney].
Translated in Spanish: Paul Ricœur. Del hombre falible al hombre capaz, Buenos Aires: Nueva vision, 2009.
L'autre et l'amitié chez Aristote et Paul Ricœur. Analyses éthiques et ontologiques, Louvain: Peeters, Éditions de l'Institut supérieur de Philosophie (Bibliothèque philosophique de Louvain, 69), 2006.
Articles
“Chapter 18: Ethics and Ontology in French Hermeneutics: The Case of Ricœur”, in The Oxford Handbook for French Philosophy, dir. by D. Whistler and M. Sinclair, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, 284-299.
“L'incognito du pardon à soi-même chez Ricœur”, in Le pardon dans tous ses états, directed by Lorraine Angeneau, Guilhem Causse, Paris, Éditions Facultés jésuites de Paris, 2024, 121-132.
Felix Pageau, Gaëlle Fiasse, Lennart Nordenfelt, Emilian Mihailov, “Care of the Older Person and the Value of Human Dignity”, in Bioethics (2023), 1-8.
“Analyse philosophique du dialogue existentiel et du respect de la différence à partir des réflexions de Pierre Claverie et Christian de Chergé”, in Laval théologique et philosophique 71, 1 (février 2021): 45-60. (Published May 16, 2022)
"Passions, Imagination, and Ethical Consideration of the Other”, in Paul Ricœur and the Lived Body, ed. by Roger. W.H. Savage, Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, 17-41.
“Aristote : la découverte de l'ami, du bien et de l'altérité”, in La naissance d'autrui. De l'Antiquité à la Renaissance, dir. by Jérôme Lagouanère, Paris: Garnier (Classiques Garnier), 2019, 63-96.
“La conception éthique et politique du mal chez Paul Ricœur. Conséquences pratiques à l'aune du contexte contemporain”, Science et Esprit 70/3 (2018), 363-379.
“Forgiveness in Ricœur”, in Phenomenology and Forgiveness, ed. by Marguerite La Caze, London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018, 85-101.
“L'acte d'aimer: tensions entre la capacité, la passivité et l'activité”, in Vulnérabilité et Empathie. Approches phénoménologiques de la relation, dir. by E. Boublil, Paris: Hermann, 2018, 117-139.
“Respecter la fragilité du patient: défis et enjeux. Réflexions sur la souffrance comme non-devoir-être”, Les Cahiers francophones de soins palliatifs 17/2 (2017), 20-25.
Affleck, W., Fiasse, G., Macdonald M.E., “Narrative, Trauma, and Self-Interpretation”, Narrative Inquiry 26/1 (2016), 108-129.
“L'amitié. Vouloir le bien de l'autre, et réciproquement”, in Philo & Cie, 2014, 17-19.
“Ricœur's Hermeneutics of the Self. On the In-Between of the Involuntary and the Voluntary, and Narrative Identity, ” Philosophy Today 58 (2014), 39-51.
“H. Jonas. L'impact du dix-septième siècle: la signification de la révolution scientifique et technologique,” in H. Jonas, Essais philosophiques. Du credo ancien à l'homme technologique, éd. par D. Bazin et O. Depré, Paris: Vrin, 2013, 75-117.
“L'amitié et la fragilité chez Aristote et Thomas d'Aquin,” in Jérusalem, Athènes et Rome. Liber amicorum X. Dijon, ed. by J. Fierens, Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2012, 109-129.
“Revisiting Jankélévitch's Dichotomy between Excusing the Ignorant and Forgiving the Wicked,” Philosophy Today 56/1 (2012), 3-15.
“Ricœur's Medical Ethics: the Encounter between the Physician and the Patient,” in Reconceiving Medical Ethics, ed. by C. Cowley, New York: Continuum Press, 2012, 30-42.
“The Golden Rule and Forgiveness.” In A Passion for the Possible. Thinking with Paul Ricœur, ed. Brian Treanor and Henry Venema, Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, New York: Fordham University Press, 2010, 77-89.
“Forgiveness and the Refusal of Injustice,” Proceedings of the ACPA 82 (2008), 39-48.
“Droit naturel, finalité, nature et esclavage chez Aristote,” in Droit naturel. Relancer l'histoire?, sous la dir. de L-L Christians, F. Coppens, X. Dijon, P. Favraux, G. Fiasse, J.-M. Longneaux et M. Ruol, Brussels: Bruylant, 2008, 133-154.
“La phronèsis dans l'éthique de Paul Ricœur,” in Le jugement pratique. Autour de la notion de phronèsis. Sous la direction de D. Lories et L. Rizzerio, Paris: J. Vrin (Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie), 2008, 349-360.
“Aristote. Physique,” in Philosophie de la substance. Ousia dans la philosophie grecque des origines à Aristote. Travaux du Centre d'études aristotéliciennes de l'Université de Liège, ed. A. Motte et P. Somville, avec la collaboration de M.-A. Gavray, A. Lefka et D. Seron, Louvain: Peeters (Aristote. Traductions et études), 2008, 209-228.
“Paul Ricœur et le pardon comme au-delà de l’action,” Laval théologique et philosophique, 63/2 (2007): 363-376.
“Le tragique de l'action. Ricoeur et Antigone,” in: Le projet d'Antigone. Parcours vers la mort d'une fille d'Oedipe, ed. Louise Grenier, Montréal: Liber, 2005, 139-153.
“Aristote. Éthiques,” in: Philosophie de la forme. Eidos, Idèa, Morphè dans la philosophie grecque, des origines à Aristote, ed. André Motte, Louvain: Peeters (Aristote. Traductions et études), 2004, 508-537.
“Les fondements de la philanthropie dans le stoïcisme impérial, deux cas concrets : l’esclavage et la gladiature, ” Les Études Philosophiques 4/2002: 527-547.
“Aristotle's phronesis: A True Grasp of Ends as Well as Means?,” The Review of Metaphysics 55 (2001): 323-337.
“Paul Ricoeur, lecteur d'Aristote,” in Éthique à Nicomaque VIII-IX, ed. Guy Samama, Paris: Ellipses, 2001, 185-189.
“La problématique de l'amour-éros dans le stoïcisme: confrontation de fragments, paradoxes et interprétations,” Revue Philosophique de Louvain, 97 (1999): 459-482.
Book reviews
Review of Love and Christian Ethics. Tradition, Theory, and Society. Edited by Frederick V. Simmons with Brian C. Sorrells. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2016, p. 400, in Touchstone. A Journal of Mere Christianity 31.4 (2018). (Invited Book Review).
“An encounter with Charles L. Griswold, Forgiveness. A philosophical exploration. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2007, 268 pages, ” in PhaenEx. Journal of existential and phenomenological theory and culture 3/2: 2008, 195-208. (Invited Book Review).