Paul Ricoeur

Philosopher

1913-02-27

Quotes by Paul Ricoeur

• If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

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• Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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

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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.

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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.

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• The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

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