Croire et savoir : la nouvelle incarnation
Believe and know: the new embodiment

Summary/Abstract: In the 11th century, Saint Anselme exercised a profound influence on the thought of the Middle Ages, by his intellectual attitude consisting in believing to understand (« Credo ut intellegam »). Until 17th century, indeed, belief and knowledge are confidentially connected, and it will be only in the next centuries that science and religion will bring in opposition. After the temptation to reduce philosophy to theology during medieval period, the modernity had the temptation to reduce the philosophy to the positive sciences. Is not there a constituent link between the philosophy on one hand, then the science and the monk on the other hand? The separation of the mythos and of does logos explain partially the crumbling of the philosophy today? Following the complete revision of the religions because of the scientific evolutions, are not we returning to the monk by a science which discovers its own limits and which sometimes wonders of its own discoveries? By trying to understand (include) the evolution of the western culture, we shall succeed in understanding (including) in which measure science and religion are profoundly united, while remaining separate.

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