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"The Law is one aspect of a much more concrete and encompassing relation than the relation between commanding and obeying that characterizes the imperative."
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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."
"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."
"Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other."
"If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death."
"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."
"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."
"What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?"
"It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach."
"Although there has always been a hermeneutic problem in Christianity, the hermeneutic question today seems to us a new one."
"Testimony demands to be interpreted because of the dialectic of meaning and event that traverses it."
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