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Paul Ricoeur (28)

Birth:	27th February, 1913
Death:	20th May, 2005
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Philosopher

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• The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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  Tags in Good, Ethics, Duty, Law, Creed, Credo

• The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative.

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  Tags in Imperative, Obeying, Characterize

• 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 a meaningful manner.

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  Tags in Classify, Contexts, Carrey

• What must be the nature of the world… if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?

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  Tags in Being

• This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

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• Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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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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  Tags in Resurrection, Spite

• On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

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  Tags in Insignificant, Cosmic, Questions

• 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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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Tolerance

• To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Government, Evil

• 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 been correctly characterized by Hegel as an abstract thought, as a thought of understanding.

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  Tags in Ethics, Duty

• Myth expresses in terms of the world – that is, of the other world or the second world – the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence.

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  Tags in Myth, Himself

• Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

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  Tags in Christianity, Hermeneutic

• But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

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  Tags in Myth, Explanation

• 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 of the sojourn at Sinai.

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  Tags in Unimportant, Sojourn, Framework

• 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 the Cross and death.

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• 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 agreement remains beyond our reach.

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  Tags in Interpretations, Arbitrate

• 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.

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  Tags in Plural, Differences, Unity

• Narrative identity takes part in the story’s movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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  Tags in Disorder, Dialectic, Narrative

• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

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  Tags in Decipher, Testament, Norm