So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm. Paul Ricoeur absolutedecipherlong Change image and share on social
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible. Paul Ricoeur anthropologybibledecision Change image and share on social
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 frameworklegislativemoses Change image and share on social
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. Paul Ricoeur existenceexpressfoundation Change image and share on social
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one. Paul Ricoeur christianityhermeneuticproblem Change image and share on social
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 collectivedestinationdestiny Change image and share on social
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. Paul Ricoeur agreementarbitrateargue Change image and share on social
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 contradictioncrossdeath Change image and share on social
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? Paul Ricoeur beinghumanintroduce Change image and share on social
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 abandonabstractcharacterize share on social