Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 27, 1913 Death: May 20, 2005
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature..
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and ….
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death..
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom..
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 t….
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination..
The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It ….
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even i….
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct..
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual.
There was a wise old owl who sat in a tree The less he spoke the more he heard The more he heard the less he spoke Why can't we be like that wise ….
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 charact….
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith.
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..
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….
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one..
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things..
Living is already having been born, in a condition we have not chosen, a situation in which we find ourselves, a quarter of the universe in which we ….
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.
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again..