"Let us define 'ethical aim' by the following three terms: aiming at the 'good life' with and for others, in just institutions."
"The self cannot be thought without the other, but rather is linked to the other in a relationship of mutual recognition and responsibility."
On the featured image Géricault, Théodore. The Raft of the Medusa. 1818–1819. Oil on canvas, 491 cm × 716 cm. Musée du Louvre, Paris.Museum Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris - Department…
Conversely, a story only holds genuine meaning for us because it mirrors the actual structure of our lived experience. Every narrative relies on temporal coordinates—beginnings, crises, endings, and the weight of waiting—which directly correspond to our mortal condition.
"The execution of an action is a text that is written onto the world."
The titles of the essays: Toward a hermeneutic of the Idea of Revelation; The Hermeneutics of Testimony; Freedom in the Light of Hope. Henceforth, the regeneration of freedom is inseparable from the movement by which the figures of hope are liberated from the idols of the market place, as Bacon put it. This whole process constitutes the philosophy of religion within the limits of reason alone; it is this process which constitutes the philosophical analogon of the kerygma of the Resurrection. It is also this process which constitutes the whole adventure of freedom and which permits us to give a comprehensible meaning to the expression "religious freedom." p.180
"To understand a text is not to rejoin the author, but to move in the direction of his work, to project oneself before it, to follow the path of the world it opens up."
"The metaphoric 'is' at once signifies both 'is not' and 'is like.'"
"The philosopher trained in the school of Descartes knows that things are doubtful... but he does not doubt that consciousness is such as it appears to itself... Since Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, this is what is in question. After the doubt about things, we have started to doubt consciousness."