Philosophy on Reasoning and Faith
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Every person has their own types of faith and beliefs along with their own levels of knowledge. Many philosophers have argued over if these two topics can correlate with each other or not. Pascal and Montaigne both have stated that someone’s faith can be correlated to one’s reasoning and knowledge. Hume and Kierkegaard on the other side have stated that they are two separate ideas that cannot be correlated to each other. Does reasoning lead to faith or the other way around? Can the knowledge of someone differ so much from their faith of what they don’t understand or not know? These are questions that these philosophers have tried to answer and I believe that Pascal and Montaigne have made an argument I agree with. Hume and Kierkegaard both have great reasoning and it makes sense to have the two topics separate from each other but I also argue that without one the other would not be possible to have. We use reasoning to understand the world around us and we do our best to gain as much knowledge as we can but anything that we cannot explain or is out of our area of knowledge we leave it to faith to fill in gaps. The history of mankind has shown this time and time again in a lot ways where we gain a lot of knowledge but we always get stuck somewhere so we resolve to faith to explain the rest. Maybe it’s the other way around and all of our faith and beliefs lead us to explore and find more information. Most of us have faith in knowing there’s more information out there that we have not found out yet so there is a small correlation with knowledge and faith. It could also be a mixture of the two, having faith leads to us finding knowledge and having knowledge leads us to believe in certain faiths of which other people can relate to.
Every person has their own types of faith and beliefs along with their own levels of knowledge. Many philosophers have argued over if these two topics can correlate with each other or not. Pascal and Montaigne both have stated that someone’s faith can be correlated to one’s reasoning and knowledge. Hume and Kierkegaard on the other side have stated that they are two separate ideas that cannot be correlated to each other. Does reasoning lead to faith or the other way around? Can the knowledge of someone differ so much from their faith of what they don’t understand or not know? These are questions that these philosophers have tried to answer and I believe that Pascal and Montaigne have made an argument I agree with. Hume and Kierkegaard both have great reasoning and it makes sense to have the two topics separate from each other but I also argue that without one the other would not be possible to have. We use reasoning to understand the world around us and we do our best to gain as much knowledge as we can but anything that we cannot explain or is out of our area of knowledge we leave it to faith to fill in gaps. The history of mankind has shown this time and time again in a lot ways where we gain a lot of knowledge but we always get stuck somewhere so we resolve to faith to explain the rest. Maybe it’s the other way around and all of our faith and beliefs lead us to explore and find more information. Most of us have faith in knowing there’s more information out there that we have not found out yet so there is a small correlation with knowledge and faith. It could also be a mixture of the two, having faith leads to us finding knowledge and having knowledge leads us to believe in certain faiths of which other people can relate to.
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