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I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take t...

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The Conflict of Interpretations

Testimony should be a philosophical problem and not limited to legal or historical contexts where it...

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

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

Guilt cannot, in fact, express itself, except in the indirect language of "captivity" and "infection...

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The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of des...

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Beneath history, memory and forgettingBeneath memory and forgetting, life.

With guilt there arises indeed a sort of demand which can be called scrupulosity and whose ambiguous...

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The Conflict of Interpretations

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Paul Ricœur

Philosopher

Born: 1913-02-27

Died: 2005-05-20

Paul Ricœur (1913 – 2005) was a French philosopher famous for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.More