Paul Ricœur Quotes

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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.

Paul Ricœur
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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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 is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

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Psychoanalysis does not satisfy the standards of the sciences of observation, and the 'facts' it deals with are not verifiable by multiple independent observers.

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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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The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

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The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

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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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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.

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

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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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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

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

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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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