本文透過澄清利科「肯認」一詞的概念，去證成「肯認」在利科的著作脈絡，並非突如其來，需要藉由法文reconnaissance 一詞在中文翻譯，轉進到《肯認的歷程》一書中所觸及的問題，並說明利科如何在黑格爾肯認問題的關注，重新回到日常語言，透過法文詞彙學的編排，進入到哲學反思：肯認的能力、被肯認的優先性等面向，澄清利科如何透過肯認在「認識與倫理」上的疑難，建構一種帶有他者關懷的自我詮釋學。

This article aims to clarify as well as justify Ricoeur’s concept of recognition while showing that the concept did not arise suddenly. Moreover, I would like to show that the French word reconnaissance used by Ricouer and translated into English as recognition is best translated into Chinese as 肯認. Initially, I would like to return to Ricoeur’s last work, The course of recognition, and show how he arrived at the notion of recognition from Hegel’s concept of Anerkennung, then investigate the French lexicography of the reconnaissance from which the philosophical meaning will be revealed as capacity of recognition or priority of being recognized. We then can find a hermeneutics of Ricouer’s idea of recognition manifested between epistemology and ethics before proceeding to construct a self hermeneutics in relation to the concern of others.