@ARTICLE{Glinkowski_Witold_Infinity:_2023,
 author={Glinkowski, Witold},
 number={No 4},
 pages={487-496},
 journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN},
 publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego},
 abstract={The aim of the article is to demonstrate similarities and differences between how Józef Tischner and Blaise Pascal understood infinity. In the philosophical project of the former, man has the status of a dramatic subject. This is often overlooked, however, as a result of the confusion between the belief that the roles people play are dramatic even though their condition in life is not dramatic. Human participation in the drama of life must not be interpreted as performing a role. Living one’s life is not acting in a drama, but dwelling within it at the deepest level of the existential participation. A human being is involved in his/her drama personally, directly and completely. As the subject of the drama, he/she opens himself/herself both to what is finite and to what is infinite, i.e. to objects and people. The stage on which we are positioned is not identical with the world itself, nor is time identical with the dramatic time which extends only from the moment when the question is heard to the one when it is answered. The dramatic condition of human being is determined by his/her opening up to the infinity that not only defines the world – as transcendent and different from the surrounding animalistic environment – but also emerges on the horizon of the desire, which must not to be confused with human needs. Needs are utilitarian, whereas desires are transcendent – both in their genesis and their forms of manifestation. Desire escalates over time in the course of being satisfied, in other words, it „feeds on its own hunger” (E. Lévinas). Finally, for both Pascal and Tischner, what guarantees the possibility of opening up to infinity is not human knowledge but religious faith.},
 title={Infinity: Intimate or Remote? Pascalian Motifs in Józef Tischner’s Reflection on Man},
 type={Artykuł},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134652/PDF/2023-04-PFIL-31.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/pfns.2023.148673},
 keywords={infinity, B. Pascal, philosophy of drama, J. Tischner},
}