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The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations

This book delves into the various interpretations and viewpoints surrounding the EPZ conflict, offering a comprehensive analysis of the issues at hand. more

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Paul Ricoeur
Paul Ricoeur

Paul Ricoeur was a French philosopher known for his contributions to hermeneutics, narratology, philosophical anthropology, and ethics. His work involved deep explorations of language, meaning, history, and human experience. more

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“Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.”

“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”