Sentences with phrase «second naivete»

«For the second immediacy that we seek and the second naivete that we await are no longer accessible to us anywhere else than in a hermeneutics; we can believe only by interpreting.

We have no alternative today to working through criticism toward a second naivete because the first naivete available to us in our culture is so deeply idolatrous.

Ricoeur there proposes a philosophical analysis of symbolic and metaphoric language intended to help us reach a «second naivete» before such texts.17 The latter phrase, which Ricoeur has made famous, suggests that the «first naivete,» an unquestioned dwelling in a world of symbol, which presumably came naturally to men and women in one - possibility cultures to which the symbols in question were indigenous, is no longer possible for us.

This permits a «second naivete,» a postcritical equivalent to precritical fusion, a return to the powerful immediacy of symbols — but all this on the basis of distance, on the basis of criticism and demythologization.38

Yes, they should, even if one wishes they would go more in the spirit of Paul Ricoeur's second naivete — the simplicity that lies on the far side of complexity.