"If it is true that there is always……" — Paul Ricoeur
"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."
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31 Quotes by Paul Ricoeur
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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that…
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the…
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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to…
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Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our…
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This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith
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For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with no regrets; it would appear…
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Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.
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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God,…
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