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Paul Ricoeur Quotes

French - Philosopher | February 27, 1913 - May 20, 2005

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.

Ethics Me Thought Understanding Duty

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.

Reach Beyond Possible Always Against

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

Identity Story Movement Narrative

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.

Character Identity Story Her His

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.

Life Time World Questions Meaningful

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.

Man Destination Unity Differences

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

Hope Freedom Death Dead Resurrection

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

Limits Logic Two Skepticism Us Move

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.

Language Meaning Easy Meaningful

Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

Meaning Event Because Testimony

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

Today Problem New Question Always

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

History World Destiny Myth Something

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