Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur
Jean Paul Gustave Ricœurwas 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 study of textual interpretation to include the broad yet concrete domains of mythology, biblical exegesis, psychoanalysis, theory of metaphor, and narrative theory."...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth27 February 1913
CountryFrance
On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.
Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
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.
I find myself only by losing myself.
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination.
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things.
There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.
The dictionary contains no metaphors.
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.