Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 27, 1913 Death: May 20, 2005
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny..
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct..
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again..
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature..
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom..
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed….
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 ….
Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder.
Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one..
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even i….
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….
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death..
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 recapitulatio….
But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other….
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….
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..
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination..
I find myself only by losing myself..
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 ….
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 ….
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..