The Conflict of Interpretations Quotes

“تعدديةالمعنى هي قانونة : النار تسخن، وتضيء، وتطهر، وتحرق، وتجدد، وتفني، وإنها لتعني في وقت واحد الشهوة والروح القدس”
― بول ريكور, صراع التأويلات

“We must recognize the fact that philosophy at the present time is entirely at an impasse concerning the problem of the origin of values. This theoretical failure is reflected in the practical antinomy between submission and rebellion that infects the daily concerns of education, politics, and ethics. If no decision can be made at this level, we must retrace our steps, extricate ourselves from the impasse, and try to gain access, by means of a nonethical approach, to the problem of autonomy and obedience.”
― Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations

“إن الإسنان الذي كان يعلم من قبل بأنه ليس سيد الكون، ولا سيد الأحياء، قد اكتشف بأنه ليس سيدا حتى لنفسه”
― بول ريكور, صراع التأويلات

“الوعي ليس أصلا، ولكنه مهمة”
― بول ريكور, صراع التأويلات

“I believe that we are henceforth incapable of returning to an order of moral life which would take the form of a simple submission to commandments or to an alien or supreme will, even if this will were represented as divine. We must accept as a positive good the critique of ethics and religion that has been undertaken by the school of suspicion. From it we have learned to understand that the commandment that gives death, not life, is a product and projection of our own weakness.”
― Paul Ricœur, The Conflict of Interpretations

“إن الثقافة إذ هي تؤول العالم فإنها تغيره”
― بول ريكور, صراع التأويلات

“إن الفائدة الفلسفية الوحيدة للرمزية، تتمثل في أنها تكشف عن طريق بنيتها للمعنى المضاعف التباس الكائن: يقول الكائن نفسه بصورة متعددة، وتكمن علة وجود الرمزية في فتح تعددية المعنى على التباس الكائن”
― بول ريكور, صراع التأويلات

“With guilt there arises indeed a sort of demand which can be called scrupulosity and whose ambiguous character is extremely interesting. A scrupulous consciousness is a delicate consciousness, a precise consciousness, enamored of increasing perfection... This atomization of the law into a multitude of commandments entails an endless 'juridization' of action and a quasi-obsessional ritualization of daily life... With it we enter into the hell of guilt, such as St. Paul described it: the law itself becomes a source of sin.”
― Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations

“إن الوعي هو الحركة التي تدمر من غير توقف نقطة انطلاقها، ولا ترتكز على ذاتها إلا في النهاية”
― بول ريكور, صراع التأويلات

“We must recognize the fact that philosophy at the present time is entirely at an impasse concerning the problem of the origin of values. This theoretical failure is reflected in the practical antinomy between submission and rebellion that infects the daily concerns of education, politics, and ethics. If no decision can be mad at this level, we must retrace our steps, extricate ourselves from the impasse, and try to gain access, by means of a nonethical approach, to the problem of autonomy and obedience.”
― Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations