Paul Ricoeur Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• 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.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Destiny, Men, Self

  Paul Ricoeur (1974). “The Conflict of Interpretations”, p.391, Northwestern University Press

• 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

  Men, Other Worlds, Understanding

• 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

  Regret, Understanding, Ethics

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.408, A&C Black

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