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

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

Paul Ricoeur
Men, Atheism, Hereafter

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

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

Paul Ricoeur
Wisdom, Jobs, Book

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

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

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

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

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

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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