Testimony should be a philo... by Paul Ricoeur, a French Philosopher

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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.”

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Paul Ricoeur

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Name: Paul Ricoeur

Nationality: French

Date of Birth: Feb 27, 1913

Date of Death: May 20, 2005

Profession: Philosopher

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Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it.

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There is no shorter path for joining a neutral existential anthropology, according to philosophy, with the existential decision before God, according to the Bible.

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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 foundation and the limit of his existence.

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So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

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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 is the identity of the story that makes the identity of the character.

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