Occupation: Philosopher Birth: February 27, 1913 Death: May 20, 2005
Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed….
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..
If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination..
Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again..
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 ….
Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature..
The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things..
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 ….
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..
This atheism concerning the gods of men pertains hereafter to any possible faith.
This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom..
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death..
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.
It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even i….
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 ….
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..
We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual.