By W. David Hall
This booklet addresses the concept of Paul Ricoeur (1913 2005), paying specific consciousness to the artistic rigidity among love and justice as precept subject matters in his paintings. facing those matters mainly in his writings on faith, Ricoeur explored the strain among the biblical beliefs of the golden rule the non secular formula of a precept of justice and the affection command. writer W. David corridor indicates how those beliefs consistently converse to one another in Ricoeur s paintings, how they function creatively on one another, and the way each one serves as a corrective to the perversions of the opposite. corridor keeps that even though problems with love and justice turned favourite relatively past due in Ricoeur s corpus, they supply a sustained trajectory all through his paintings and are a massive interpretive key for figuring out Ricoeur s highbrow undertaking as a whole."
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