Paul Ricœur quotes - page 2

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. (Paul Ricœur)
Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it. View quote
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If we go back to the intention [ Marx, Nietzsche and Freud] had in common, we find in it the decision to look upon the whole of consciousness primarily as "false" consciousness. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you want to change people's obedience then you must change their imagination. View quote
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We are not capable of producing a concept of time that is at once cosmological, biological, historical and individual. View quote
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Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again. View quote
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The dictionary contains no metaphors. View quote
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The spectacle is at the same time the mirage of self in the mirror of things. View quote
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People do things, and then they imagine what they are doing in a kind of cloudy realm. Thus we say first there is a social reality in which people fight to earn their living, and so on, and this is real reality, as praxis. This reality is then represented in the heaven of ideas, but it is falsely represented as having a meaning autonomous to this realm, as making sense on the basis of things which can be thought and not done or lived. The claim against ideology therefore comes from a kind of realism of life, a realism of practical life for which praxis is the alternative concept to ideology. Marx's system is materialist precisely in its insistence that the materiality of praxis precedes the ideality of ideas. View quote
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