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Paul Ricoeur
French Philosopher
Born: Feb 27, 1913
Died: May 20, 2005
Always Between Old Problem Understanding World
Related authors: Albert Camus Blaise Pascal Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jean-Paul Sartre Michel de Montaigne Montesquieu Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Simone Weil
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. Paul Ricoeur
Man Destination Collective Differences Unity Other Destinies Through Understood Which Each
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. Paul Ricoeur
Demands Because Dialectic Testimony Meaning Event Interpreted
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. Paul Ricoeur
Good World Law Final Our Possible Moral Moral Law Object Highest Make Commands Conduct Us
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. Paul Ricoeur
Character Constructing Constructs Identity Makes Narrative His Story Her
The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. Paul Ricoeur
Law Relation One Aspect Obeying More Imperative Between Concrete Encompassing Commanding Than Much Aspect
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. Paul Ricoeur
Validation Logic Between Limits Dogmatism Move Skepticism Us Two
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? Paul Ricoeur
Nature World Changes Introduce Must Able Human Human Beings Beings
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. Paul Ricoeur
Today Problem Christianity Seems New Although Always Been New One Question Us
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Paul Ricoeur
History World Myth Else Destiny Something Something Else Than Explanation
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 Ricoeur
Me Ethics Thought Understanding Own Duty Indeed Correctly Abandon Characterized Would Critique My Own No Regrets Part Abstract Been Hegel Regrets Appear
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. Paul Ricoeur
Death Hope Living Sign Cross Insofar Resurrection Contradiction Proceeds Placed
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death. Paul Ricoeur
Death Hope Freedom Spite Resurrection Dead
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. Paul Ricoeur
Language Recognize Carries Easy Employed Conditions Ordinary Which Meaning Meaningful Manner Expression
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. Paul Ricoeur
Old Long Absolute Taken New Testament Norm New Testament Decipher Served
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. Paul Ricoeur
Wisdom Best Book Job Example Perhaps Most Meaning Meaning Of Profound

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