It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.

Quote by Paul Ricoeur

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The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the...

The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the...

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with...

There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with...

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce...

What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce...

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

Testimony gives something to be interpreted.

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

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

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed...

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed...

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with...

For my own part, I abandon the ethics of duty to the Hegelian critique with...

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

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

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a...

If it is true that there is always more than one way of construing a...

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.

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

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

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

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

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear...

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear...

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

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

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

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

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of...

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of...

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it...

Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it...

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or...

Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or...

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.