"Eric Voegelin and Paul Ricoeur on Memory and History"
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Paul Ricoeur, Critique and Conviction We are not equal within language. There are inabilities. Take now the ability to act. It is greater among people with power. . . . There are degrees of ability, therefore. For example--and we may have to reconcile ourselves with this, including with Hayden White--this marvelous ability to narrate. Because it is universal: everybody has narrated. We are trying to narrate a path . . . . And one must be able to narrate in order to have this next, fourth ability: accountability. That is to say that I can feel, as one says in English, accountable. For this, one must be able to give an account.
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