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

— Paul Ricoeur

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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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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

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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

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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. ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it? ↗

— Paul Ricoeur

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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

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

— Paul Ricoeur

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