Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur

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

Good Christian

Problem

Today

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Criticism

Desert

Wish

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

Destiny

Myth

World

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. 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. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

Destiny

Men

Self

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.

Firsts

Mouths

Narrative

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

Regret

Understanding

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.

Contradiction

Crosses

Resurrection

I find myself only by losing myself.

Losing

Losing Myself

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.

Different Interpretations

Equal

Way

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

Ifs

Resurrection

Spite

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Arguing

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Character

Church

Concept Of Time

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Criticism

Crosses

Decision

Demand

Desert

Destiny

Dictionary

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Different Interpretations

Equal

Ethics

Events

Expression

Finals

Firsts

Giving

Good Christian

Hereafter

Historical

Identity

Ifs

Imagination

Individual

Jobs

Joining

Law

Life Is

Literature

Long

Losing

Losing Myself

Lost

May

Meaningful

Men

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Mirages

Mirrors

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Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur

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

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

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

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.

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.

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.

I find myself only by losing myself.

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.

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

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