¿Descartes o Pascal? La brújula metafísica de Jean-Luc Marion

Most philosophers use to say that Jean-Luc Marion's phenomenology of givenness is paradigmatically based on the work of René Descartes. This assertion can be justified due to the large number of texts that Marion dedicated to the French thinker, renewing his interpretation in the mid-1970s, as well as to the central role he occupies in his work. However, the author shows that, paradoxically, what interests Marion in Descartes are the problems that he could not solve, as well as the failures of his project to quantify the totality of the fields as evidenced by the problem of the flesh as well as the idea of infinity. Thus, the possibility of another foundation of the phenomenology of givenness opens up, no longer in Descartes but in Pascal, who assumed the need, for philosophy, to free itself from metaphysics and to think from an order superior to that of the mind, from the order of charity.