The Symbolism of Evil

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Beacon Press, 1967 - 357 páginas
"According to Ricoeur, the most primal and spontaneous symbols of evil are defilement, sin and guilt ... Ricoeur moves from the elementary symbols of evil into the rich world of myths ... and he ends by suggesting that the clue to the relation between philosophy to mythology is to be found in the aphorism 'The symbol gives rise to the thought' ... Ricoeur's method and argument are too intricate and rich to assess in so short a review. Suffice it to say that this is the most massive accomplisment of any philosopher within the ambience of Christian faith since the appearance of Gabriel Marcel" - Sam Keen, The Christian Century
 

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I Defilement
25
question of a belated restoration of beliefs that life as
34
strong and very rich to have thus survived the
35
II Sin
47
3 THE WRATH OF GOD
63
occurrence of defeat and destruction As something that happened
68
Thus the psalms reveal the tenderness hidden in the heart
70
I will repent of the evil that I thought to
81
I The Drama of Creation
175
Myth on the strength of its first thirty verses
184
fall is already resolved That is why there is
191
II The Wicked God and the
211
2 THE CRUX OF THE TRAGIC
218
3 DELIVERANCE FROM THE TRAGIC OR DELIVERANCE
227
III The Adamic Myth and
232
possible what we shall call further on a system of
235

the end these circumstances are difficult to define
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III Guilt
100
stage to emerge the guilty manand a movement
101
tragedy blows where it will and in this
118
Recapitulation
151
The Symbolic
161
3 THE LAPSE of Time of the Drama
252
IV The Myth of the
279
lated their oath have followed in the
305
V The Cycle of the Myths
306
The Symbol
347
RUTH NANDA ANSHEN
362
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Paul Ricoeur (27 February 1913 - 20 May 2005) was a French philosopher best known for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics. As such his thought is situated within the same tradition as other major hermeneutic phenomenologists, Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer. In 2000 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for having "revolutionized the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology, expanding the study of textual interpretation to include the broad yet concrete domains of mythology, biblical exegesis, psychoanalysis, theory of metaphor, and narrative theory."