Ratiocentric and cordocentric controversies of Modern European humanism: B. Pascal's "logic of the heart"

Q3 Arts and Humanities

Sententiae Pub Date : 2023-12-31 DOI:10.31649/sent01.01.13

Ihor Bychko

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Abstract

The article examines Pascal's philosophy in the context of the confrontation between naturalistic and humanistic trends in the history of philosophy from Antiquity to the Baroque periods (the highest manifestation of this period is the confrontation between two humanisms: Renaissance ratiocentric and Baroque cordocentric ones). Pascal's philosophy is considered in the article as a manifestation of Baroque thought. In particular – in terms of the general view of nature and human destiny. It is indicated that, in contrast to Renaissance anthropocentrism, which put forward reason as the key and highest human faculty, Baroque theocentric thinking relegitimates the "heart" faculty which is necessary for cognition of the divine dimensions of the world. On this ground, the author interprets Pascal's philosophy as cordocentric: one that, against the background of the limitations of the absolute epistemological claims of reason, justifies the importance of the "heart" faculty in discovering the fundamental principles of God, nature, and the world. According to this vision, reason is assigned the function of explaining these principles.

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近代欧洲人文主义的 "比率中心论 "和 "心灵中心论 "之争：B. 帕斯卡尔的 "心灵逻辑

文章从古代到巴洛克时期哲学史上自然主义与人文主义思潮对峙的背景下研究帕斯卡尔的哲学（这一时期的最高表现是两种人文主义的对峙：文艺复兴时期的 "比率中心论 "和巴洛克时期的 "中心论"）。文章将帕斯卡尔哲学视为巴洛克思想的一种表现形式。特别是在对自然和人类命运的总体看法方面。文章指出，文艺复兴时期的人类中心主义将理性作为人类的关键和最高能力，与之相反，巴洛克的神心思想将 "心 "这一认知世界的神圣维度所必需的能力贬低到了无足轻重的地位。在此基础上，作者将帕斯卡尔的哲学解释为 "心中心主义 "哲学：在理性的绝对认识论主张受到限制的背景下，证明了 "心 "的能力在发现上帝、自然和世界的基本原则方面的重要性。根据这种观点，理性被赋予了解释这些原则的功能。

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期刊介绍： Sententiae is historico-philosophical open access journal. Journal created by Modern philosophy''s research group (Pascalian society). Founded in 2000. Published twice a year, in June and December. Our purpose is to foster the development of a wide gamut of contemporary approaches, active implementation of them into research practice, and establishment of high standards of teaching philosophy basing on the achievements of contemporary history of philosophy. Our key priority is to ensure the empirical substantiation of historico-philosophical conceptions, basing on the criteria of literality, exhaustivity, contextuality and taking into account the existing speculative interpretations. Jean-Luc Marion was the first to formulate this set of criteria in 1998 as the main features of contemporary researches of Descartes''s philosophy. We regard these principles as the methodological background of any substantiated research method in the history of philosophy. Publishing materials on all historico-philosophical topics, we pay special attention to researches in terminology, issues of philosophical translation and untranslatability, manuscript researches (including handwritten heritage of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy professors of ХVІІ–ХVІІІ century), and cover the development of large-scale projects in this area. We also publish new bilingual and commented Ukrainian translations of classical foreign philosophical texts. Among our priorities there is also a coverage of the history of philosophical thought in Ukraine and other Eastern European countries and its relations to the wider cultural context (theology, literature, natural sciences, political ideology etc). The content of each issue is distributed according to Genre Sections and Thematic Headings. Currently there are 10 Genre Sections.