Der doppelte Auftakt des Gottesgedankens in der Moderne: das Spiel von Endlich und Unendlich bei René Descartes und Blaise Pascal
For both Descartes and Pascal, the main matter of discussion is the tear between thinking and being, between finite and infinite. Descartes is considered as the starting point of the metaphysics of the modern age, which will have its fulfillment in Hegel. He would have overcome by sheer reason the r...
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| Language: | German |
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2018
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Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
Year: 2018, Volume: 140, Issue: 4, Pages: 380-391 |
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| Summary: | For both Descartes and Pascal, the main matter of discussion is the tear between thinking and being, between finite and infinite. Descartes is considered as the starting point of the metaphysics of the modern age, which will have its fulfillment in Hegel. He would have overcome by sheer reason the rift between thinking and being, through the idea of a positive infinity. Pascal, on the other hand, would be the anti-modern, because he would be the first to witness the loss of metaphysical thinking. As an alternative to this interpretation, the article highlights the »baroque soul« of both the authors : a more differentiated judgment emerges, capturing both the ›leap‹ in the Cartesian argument and the Pascal ›logic‹. Pascal foretells a critical instance, the full reach of it brought to light only with the late Schelling, Feuerbach, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, prolonging the modernity of Pascal well beyond Hegel himself. |
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| ISSN: | 0044-2895 |
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