Philosophy Today, December 1st, 2004
The relationship between Karl Jaspers and Paul Ricoeur is remarkable both for the intensity of its early days and for its apparent coolness soon there after. The typical understanding of this separation focuses on Ricoeur's critique of Jasper's understanding of religious commitment. As the story goes, Ricoeur dismisses Jaspers' faith as a form of Don Juanism; while Jaspers' and his followers see in Ricoeur's turn to the symbolics and hermeneutics of religion a move away from the rigors of a philosophical faith in the power of antinomial reason (Vernunft),1 I shall argue, however, that Ricoeur'...
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