morny joyoffers to his audience the munificent gift of choosing freely. He allows
us to decide for ourselves whether we acquiesce to, or withhold our
assent from, his own deeply held sense of hope in the promises he
believes have been made. In following this trajectory of Ricoeur’s pro-
found explorations, however, we can emerge the richer and wiser as a
result of his particular depictions of the pitfalls and the insights that
can be gleaned from such endeavors.