Paul Ricoeur Quotes

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• The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It…
• Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of…
• Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
• Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
• If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
• Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
• Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
• The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.
• This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
• For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear to me, indeed, to have…
• Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
• There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
• Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in…
• Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of…
• But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.
• This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.
• It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this…
• If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.
• First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework…
• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

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