French - Philosopher | February 27, 1913 - May 20, 2005
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.
Paul Ricoeur
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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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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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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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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.
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Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen.
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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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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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The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
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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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