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La Croyance de A A Z: Un Des Plus Grands Mysteres de la Philosophie
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Series: Encre Marine
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ISBN10: 2350880877
ISBN13: 9782350880877
Publisher: Encre Marine
Published: Mar 13 2015
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.71
Language: French
ISBN13: 9782350880877
Publisher: Encre Marine
Published: Mar 13 2015
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.71
Language: French
English summary: Readers will find in this book a primer comprised of 26 little doors by which to enter into the heart of a particularly elusive subject. The incomparable advance of proven knowledge and of universally verifiable theories have not weakened public opinion or the reign of confidence (thus also of mistrust). If such is the case, why should we be satisfied with a mere presentation based solely on the logic of an arbitrary hypothesis which is not even symbolically, but only literally true? What compels us to accept belief at face value? The unequivocal answer is because its spirit eludes us, or rather it is so volatile that we have scarcely any hope of grasping it.
Philosophic discourse (with the exception of Hume's, not to mention Pascal's) ordinarily dismisses belief, treating it as an unfounded doxy, or idiotic gullibility (if not extravagant fantasy). A long idealist tradition has never ceased to label it as presumptive and improvable, a self-delusion based on false knowledge, failing to notice that the verb to believe merits neither the distinction of being compared to a state of knowing (even when challenged), nor to the indignity of being called a systematic indulgence towards non-being and illusion. This is one of the reasons why verbs here are favoured over the substantive. Readers of this book are invited to accompany belief on its historical journey from A to Z, hopping from one letter to the next, just as they would from stone to stone when crossing a creek. French description: Le lecteur trouvera ici un abecedaire, soit vingt-six petites portes pour entrer dans un sujet particulierement fuyant. La progression incomparable des savoirs averes, de propositions par tous verifiables, ne fait reculer ni la part de l'opinion ni l'empire de la confiance (donc aussi de la defiance). Pourquoi, s'il en est ainsi, se contenter d'une presentation sans autre logique que celle d'un arbitraire qui n'est pas meme du signe mais simplement de la lettre ? Qu'est-ce qui pousse a prendre la croyance au pied de chaque lettre ? La reponse ne fait pas de doute: c'est que son esprit nous echappe, ou plutot qu'il est si volatil qu'on n'a guere de chance de le capturer.Le discours des philosophes - a l'exception de Hume, pour ne rien dire de Pascal - tient d'ordinaire la croyance en mepris, qu'elle soit regardee comme doxa depourvue de fondement ou credulite imbecile (voire delire extravagant). Une longue tradition idealiste n'a pas cesse, lui imputant ensemble presomption et infirmite de connaitre, de se leurrer elle-meme en suspectant un faux savoir, sans apercevoir que, le verbe croire ne merite ni l'honneur d'etre compare a savoir, fut-ce le temps d'une recusation, ni l'indignite pour complaisance systematique envers le non-etre et l'illusion.C'est une des raisons qui, souvent, ont fait ici preferer le verbe au substantif. On propose donc de poursuivre le croire de A a Z, invitant le lecteur a sauter le pas a chaque lettre comme, pour traverser un ruisseau, on procede de pierre en pierre.
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