Paul Ricoeur

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

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

— Paul Ricoeur

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On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony gives something to be interpreted. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it refers to the account of a witness who reports what he has seen. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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The text is a limited field of possible constructions. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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