TRADITION ET COUTUME SELON BLAISE PASCAL
TRADITION AND CUSTOM ACCORDING TO BLAISE PASCAL

Summary/Abstract: Tradition and Custom According to Blaise Pascal. The relation between tradition and custom becomes significant in the perspective of the possibility of identifying the authentic, therefore original, nature of the individual. The distinction between tradition and traditionalism is similar to the one between tradition and custom, as long as the custom implies the acceptance of o a simulacrum instituted along with the primordial sin. The presence of the customs or of the instaurations (institutions) guarantees to the individual a precarious stability, based on an abyss. The origin and the original are forbidden precisely because of the existence of an indefinite (infinite) chain between custom and nature. The custom remains an effect of the ontological dislocation of the individual, while tradition hints at the real cause of this complex situation. The understanding of this cause is directly linked to the possibility opened up by divine grace, the only one truly original and authentic in its indetermination.

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