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DIED. PAUL RICOEUR, 92, French philosopher who, while not as well known as his contemporary Jean-Paul Sartre, explored many of the same complex questions of human existence in more than 20 books, including last year's Memory, History, Forgetting; in Chatenay-Malabry, France...
Modern liberal theologians have forgotten the problem of evil," says University of Chicago Philosopher Paul Ricoeur. Is that true, even in the aftermath of a horror like Jonestown? Remarks Yale Divinity School's Barbara Hargrove, "in other ages, what happened to Jim Jones would have been referred to very clearly as coming under the influence of evil forces-'the devil got in him.' But I haven't heard any people using that kind of language...
Suggesting the glimmer of a détente, French Phenomenologist Paul Ricoeur now teaches a course in linguistic analysis at the University of Paris. Yale's John Wild recently published an article suggesting that the lebenswelt, the "life world" of experience that phenomenology investigates, is the world of "ordinary language" that the linguistic philosophers are studying...
...sexuality is the result of modern man's disappointment with his technological and political worlds, writes Esprit's Associate Editor Paul Ricoeur, a professor of General Philosophy at the Sorbonne. "Eroticism is. therefore, revenge not only against the insignificance of work and politics, but against the insignificance of sex itself." Other morsels in Esprit's 319 pages...
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