Paul Ricoeur Quotes - Page 2

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• This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith

  Paul Ricoeur

  Men, Atheism, Hereafter

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• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Taken, Long, New Testament

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.382, A&C Black

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• This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom.

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  Wisdom, Jobs, Book

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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.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Men, Other Worlds, Understanding

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

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  Destiny, World, Myth

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

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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.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Resurrection, Contradiction, Crosses

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.405, A&C Black

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• 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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• 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

  Mouths, Narrative, Firsts

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