Our first focus in working out the question of the extent of the hermeneutical character of reflection in the philosophy of Ricœur is on his structural or eidetic phenomenology. We shall in this first focus attempt to present this level as he initially engaged in it. Only after treating his later turn to the concrete hermeneutical reflection can we return and reveal its implicit hermeneutical character, as well as its necessarily explicit hermeneutical character. But in order to pose the problem properly in its undistorted tension and to polarize the different perspectives on this eidetic level, we will attempt to treat this level from the perspective of pure reflection un-distorted by the turn and passage to hermeneutics and concrete reflection.