The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.
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
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
Paul Ricoeur
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
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder
Paul Ricoeur
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree
The less he spoke the more he heard
The more he heard the less he spoke
Why can't we be like that wise old owl in the tree?
Speech must die to serve that which is spoken.
Paul Ricoeur
