@ARTICLE{Piętak_Krzysztof_A_2023,
 author={Piętak, Krzysztof},
 number={No 4},
 pages={459-474},
 journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN},
 publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego},
 abstract={This article is an attempt of a comparative analysis between George Berkeley’s and Blaise Pascal’s religious apologetics. In my intention the fruitfulness of this analysis shall constitute a preliminary justification for two postulates that belong to the methodology of the history of philosophy. First, it is advisable to reject interpretative habits, which are specific for what I call the ‘Enlightenment story’ in regard to the 17th century philosophers (from Descartes to Berkeley). Secondly, it seems helpful to apply in regard to these philosophers a new exegetic key, which I call ‘the apologetic key’. In the first section, I detail the fundamental features of the ‘Enlightenment story’ and I show how destructive this story sounds when it is applied to Pascal and Berkeley. In the second section, I compare Pascal’s and Berkeley’s religious apologetics identifying differences and similarities between them. In the third and the fourth sections, I sketch a short historiosophical speculation about the hypothetical influence of the reception of Pascal’s Les Pensées on the shape of the apologetic project of Berkeley. In the fifth section, I explain why it could be fruitful to apply the ‘apologetic key’ to all the so-called ‘great philosophers’ of the 17th century.},
 title={A Comparative Analysis of Pascal’s and Berkeley’s Apologetics},
 type={Artykuł},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134650/PDF/2023-04-PFIL-29.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/pfns.2023.148671},
 keywords={17th century philosophy, apologetics, G. Berkeley, methodology of the history of philosophy, B. Pascal},
}