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
There has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity because Christianity proceeds from a proclamation.
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
The text is a limited field of possible constructions.
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 what he has seen.
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.
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.
So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith