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27 quotes by Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricœur (French: [ʁikœʁ]; 27 February 1913 – 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. As such, his thought is within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. In 2000, he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for having "revolutionized the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology, expanding the...
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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... →

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

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

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If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a text, it is not true that all interpretations are equal.

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

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Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed... →

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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... →

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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according... →

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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

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Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.

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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... →

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The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the... →

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