On the way to nowhere : reflections upon the impossible of identity

Abstract

"The primacy of reason and the primacy of faith, Athens and Jerusalem - these are centuries-old oppositions between which human thought has been oscillating through history. The choice of one opposite stance triggers the negation of the other. Leo Shestov suggests abandoning of all doubts and calls for absolute commitment to Jerusalem, or in other words, for absolute faith. The search for rational solutions to problems of existence and the need to escape from uncertainties resulted in the development of critical thinking in relation to what Shestov terms the Crisis of ratio." (fragm.)