The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 172 of 254

Ricoeur's great oscillation of the I

we must avoid what Paul Ricoeur called ‘the great oscillation that causes the “I” of the “I think” to appear, by turns, to be elevated inordinately to the heights of first truth and then cast down to the depths of a vast illusion’.

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