"In 1965, French philosopher Paul Ricœur called Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud the three “maîtres du soupçon,” the “masters of suspicion” that made us regard the conscience as something suspect. Because of these three ideologues, many no longer trust their conscience. They are no longer sure that it is the innate voice of God or human nature. What if the “masters of suspicion” were right, and what we call the voice of conscience is in fact the voice of those who want to deny us the right to revolution, to power, and to pleasure, who have instilled in us their pseudo-values and taught us to call them conscience?"
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Massimo Introvigne, "Tai Ji Men: Defending Conscience Against Its Enemies", Bitter Winter (2023)
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Paul Ricœur
1913 – 2005
Paul Ricœur (1913 – 2005) was a French philosopher famous for combining phenomenological description with hermeneutics.
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