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The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism.

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The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

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The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

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Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one.

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But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny.

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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 the sojourn at Sinai.

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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.

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If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

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

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Philosopher

Born: February 27th, 1913

Died: May 20th, 2005

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