Paul Ricoeur

Philosopher

27 Quotes

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.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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