帕斯卡的人学思想及其启示

Comment on Blaise Pascal's Study on Humanity and its Inspiration

自文艺复兴以来,笛卡尔哲学代表的理性主义一直成为推动西方科学和社会进步的动力。上个世纪,乐观的唯理性主义给现代社会带来深重的文化危机,尤其经过两次世界大战,西方社会开始反思工具理性和科学至上。笛卡尔同时代的科学家、哲学家帕斯卡通过研究"人的问题",对理性本身的内在矛盾及其界限进行了反思和批判,至今对我们重新审视理性的运用、反思工具理性造成的现代文明的内在危机仍有较大的启迪意义。

Since Renaissance, the representative of Cartesian rationalism philosophy has always been to promote Western science and social progress. In the last century, the rational optimism brought grave cultural crisis to modern society, in particular after the two world wars, Western society began to reflect on rational and scientific tools supremacy. Descartes generation of scientists, philosophers Pascal was through research on the ＂human issues＂, the rational own internal contradictions and its limits with a reflection and criticism is still rational for us to revisit the use of a rational tool for reflection of the internal crisis of modem civilization has a great sense of enlightenment.