«Sempre credenti»

Una lettura filosofica e teologica

Abstract

This contribution presents a detailed phenomenology of belief; it describes a modus essendi deeply rooted in the experience of belief and demonstrates that this experience has always been communal. Paradoxically, then, everyone is thus first and foremost a believer in man and the world which he is a part of, before, possibly, going on to develop a specific and structured form of religious belief. From this perspective, Pascal’s wager is pushed to the extreme: we, as men, cannot choose to choose; we make a bet right from the start and are then involved in the difficult game of human existence. The pre-philosophical element, i.e. the unquestioned element which has to be lived, since it cannot be proved, gives rise to philosophy itself and also, consequently, to anthropology and theology. 

Traduzione dal francese di Irene Zavattero.