Echoes on the Road
“What seems to me to be constitutive of the religious is, therefore, the fact of crediting a word, in accordance with a certain code and within the limits of a certain canon. I would...
Tagged: Paul Ricoeur
Pacifism: Its Moral Value and Insufficiency
As an action aimed at social betterment, pacifism–the refusal to return violence with violence–almost always fails miserably. In his essay “Non-violent Man and History,” philosopher Paul Ricoeur, himself a pacifist, shined a light on...
State, Violence, and Global Order
Over on the front page, Tim Kowal offers a considered meta-observation of how American power functions in the world: True, America wields a big stick in the world. But it wields it clumsily, taking...
Echoes on the Road
“Reading is like the execution of a musical score; it marks the realization, the enactment, of the semantic possibilities of a text.” – Paul Ricoeur, From Text to Action
Interpreting Faith, Suspiciously
Fellow gentleman Tod Kelly is seeking to learn how he might reconcile his lack of belief with his desire for belief, a journey for which I have much sympathy and fascination. For some time...
