Mythic-Symbolic Language and Philosophical Anthropology: A Constructive Interpretation of the Thought of Paul Ricœur

David M. Rasmussen

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I. A Negative Correlation between Mythic-Symbolic Language and the Nature of Man.- A. From Language to Special Language.- B. Bultmann: Hermeneutics and the Nature of Man.- 1. The Definition of Myth.- 2. The Problem of Hermeneutics.- C. The Problem of a Negative Definition of Mythic-Symbolic Language.- II. Methodological Perspectives: From Phenomenology to Hermeneutic Phenomenology.- A. Global Philosophical Anthropology.- 1. The Eidetic Method and Its Limitations.- 2. Existential Description and Its Limits.- 3. Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Language.- III. Freedom and Global Anthropology.- A. Freedom and Nature.- 1. Freedom and Decision.- 2. Freedom and Action.- 3. Freedom and Consent.- 4. Freedom, Nature, and the Eidetic Method.- B. Freedom and Fallibility.- 1. The Hypothesis.- 2. Epistemology and Fallibility.- 3. Action and Fallibility.- 4. Feeling.- 5. Freedom and Fallibility.- C. Freedom and Fault.- 1. Symbol and the Servile Will.- a. Stain.- b. Sin.- c. Guilt.- 2. The Symbols and the Servile Will.- D. Myth and the Problem of Evil.- I. The Cycle of Myths.- IV. Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Language.- A. Philosophy as a Hermeneutic.- B. Philosophy as a Reflective Task.- C. Structuralism and Phenomenology.- D. Ricoeur's Hermeneutic: An Evaluation.- E. Conclusion.- V. Toward a Working Theory of Language Correlated with a Philosophical Anthropology.- A. Theory.- 1. Phenomenological Epistemology and the Possibility of a New Anthropological Model.- 2. Hermeneutics: The Initial Validity of the Mythic-Symbolic Form.- 3. Mythic-Symbolic Language and the Problem of Definition.- 4. Definition: The Validity of Mythic-Symbolic Language.- a. Uniqueness.- b. Dimensions of Experience.- c. Meaning.- 5. Mythic-Symbolic Language and the Theory of Language.- 6. Mythic-Symbolic Language and a Global Understanding of Man.- 7. Conclusion.- B. Methodology.- I. Hermeneutic Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Religion.- What is a Text? Explanation and Interpretation.- I. What is a Text?.- II. Structural Analysis as Explanation.- III. Towards a new Concept of Interpretation.

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