@ARTICLE{Hołówka_Jacek_Reason_2023,
 author={Hołówka, Jacek},
 number={No 4},
 pages={351-365},
 journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN},
 publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego},
 abstract={The paper discusses philosophical problems raised by Pascal in the Lettres Provinciales. I start from the question whether eternal salvation is determined by divine grace or by individual merits of the faithful. I do not attempt to focus on all relevant doctrinal viewpoints adopted by the protestants, the Jansenists, the Holy See, the Dominicans or the Jesuits. Instead I focus on philosophical problems and propose solutions to only some issues. I argue that a persuasive answer can be found when we employ the concept of coincidence. It is possible that individual attempts to earn salvation coincide with God’s decrees about human entitlements to after-life. This connection is not causal but coincidental. But even though it is coincidental, it may seem to be coupled or conjugated, even when it is not. Such a solution seems to aptly illustrate the match between the functions performed by the reason and by the heart. Such an abstract proposal is not openly advertised by Pascal. He may have considered, and rejected it, discouraged by its vagueness and its incongruence with the traditional conception of causality which is based on presumed physical connections rather than statistical evidence or the metaphysical conception of harmonia mundi.},
 title={Reason and Heart},
 type={Artykuł},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134643/PFIL-22.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/pfns.2023.148664},
 keywords={H. Frankfurt, free will, grace, heresy, Jansenism, Pascal’s Wager, salvation, superdetermination},
}