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Reason is the need for the infinite and culminates in the longing for and the presentiment of this infinite becoming manifest<\/p><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

The title of the XXVII edition of the \u201cMeeting for Friendship Among Peoples,\u201d drawn from a conversation between Fr. Giussani and university students in 1992, places the problem of reason at the center of attention. <\/span>
\nReason is the exigency of the Infinite, inasmuch as it is connatural with man\u2019s existential need not to have his own vision of life limited to measurable confines. Only when reason, and all the faculties deriving from it, opens wide toward something that is not \u201cfinite\u201d and thus does not claim to be the measure of all things, is its capacity to know and to affect the texture of reality fully prized and not mortified. This opening is guaranteed by the fact that man, by nature, desires and needs to stretch out toward something infinitely greater than himself. <\/span>
\nIn contrast, the man who by a free act does not open out to the Infinite, because of a cowardly will for self-preservation or a rationally distilled calculation, reduces the scope of reason, of which he is the only possessor; in his self-celebratory presumption to be able to explain everything in the light of reason, he refuses to admit the evidence of the fact that the Infinite (the Absolute or the Mystery) permeates all of reality. Because of his obstinacy, man thus ends up depriving reason of a substantial part of its cognitive energy. <\/span>
\nThis is what happens with the deviations of contemporary reason, as described in the encyclical Fides et ratio, from scientism, which \u201crefuses to admit the validity of forms of cognition different from those proper to the positive sciences,\u201d to historicism, which defines \u201cthe truth of a philosophy on the basis of its adequacy to a certain period and a certain historical task,\u201d thus denying \u201cthe perennial validity of the truth,\u201d and to nihilism, whose oblivion of being \u201cinevitably leads to the loss of contact with objective truth, and consequently, with the foundation for the dignity of man.\u201d <\/span>
\nIn fact, in denying reason the \u201cinevitable affirmation\u201d of the Infinite - inevitable because necessary to the affirmation of the grandeur of human nature - intelligence contracts upon itself, and rationalism fractures into meticulous analyses; the \u201cbreath and sigh,\u201d the indispensable means of approaching to the point that it is possible to comprehend the infinite Mystery, is suffocated; the capacity for \u201cpresentiment,\u201d the highest level of intelligence, dissolves into forms of divination, similar to presentiment but emptied, such as foresight or prediction, which have hardly anything in common with the power of existential involvement that is the hallmark of presentiment. <\/span>
\nThus, the experience of freedom as well is sealed off in an aseptic measure, while freedom is like \u201ca great breath, a vast and deep breath\u201d that takes on consistency even \u201cliving in restricted spaces, because the horizon of man in the relationship with things is the Infinite\u201d (Fr. Giussani). The culmination of human intelligence truly consists in breaking through, projecting itself toward the infinite Mystery, even through the restricted spaces in which man is often forced to live. <\/span>
\nOnly in this way does reason \u201cculminate in the sigh and the presentiment that the Infinite may reveal Itself.\u201d In the sigh and the presentiment that the Infinite may reveal Itself, human intelligence crosses over its own boundaries. The sigh is a way of feeling things, full of expectation and desire, deeply moved. But the sigh cannot help but be a desire clouded by melancholy. The sigh is pierced through by \u201cinexpressible groans.\u201d<\/span>
\nPresentiment is the positive and freely engaged faculty of perceiving that reality is a set of signs that point to Something Other; sometimes we are able to decode them, but often it is not given to us to do so. However, reason does not suffer because of this, as long as it adapts to recognizing that beyond reality \u201cthere is Something Other,\u201d of which reality is the visible sign.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reason is the need for the infinite and culminates in the longing for and the presentiment of this infinite becoming manifest The title of the XXVII edition of the \u201cMeeting … <\/p>\n

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