Paul Ricoeur Quotes

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Paul Ricoeur

Profession : Philosopher

Birth : February 27, 1913

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

It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

Paul Ricoeur

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

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

Paul Ricoeur

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

Paul Ricoeur

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