Między rozumem i wiarą. Aktualność zmagań Pascala

Abstract

It is argued that the doctrine of methodological isolationism (that empirical, philosophical and theological knowledge are located on two different methodological and epistemological and linguistic levels which neither intersect one another nor can be translated from one to the other) does not characterize Pascal’s thought. Contrary to the Gilberte’s statement that „tout ce qui est l’objet de la foi ne le sau rait être de la raison” Pascal was a very careful investigator of the unstable border between faith and reason. Newman’s division of reason into explicative and implicative is borrowed to elucidate Pascal’s distinction of heart and reason. Then a simple schema of the mutual relations is developed. The result is that the different orders of faith and reason are deeply rooted in the mystery of the Universe.