Faith and Reason, Reason and Faith,…, Thought

"Parmenides : the One becomes younger than the other things, because he appeared to be older and to be born before, whereas the other things become older than the One, because their birth is posterior. And, by virtue of the same reasoning, it's thus that the other things behave towards the One, in the measure exactly where they seemed older than him, because born before him.
Young Aristotle : it appears well, in these conditions that it is there so ….
Parmenides : According to all this reasoning thus, the One is and becomes older and younger than himself and that the other things, and he is not and does not become older or younger than himself and what the other things.
Young Aristotle : it is absolutely exact.
Parmenides : Now, as this One participates to time and as he has property from becoming older and younger, is not it a necessity that he participates to past, to future and to moment ?
Young Aristotle : A necessity …
Parmenides : And of Him, obviously, there will be science, opinion and sensation, because ourselves we exercise at the present time to his subject all these activities.
Young Aristotle : What you say is just." (Cf. Plato - Parmenides, 155a, c, d).

Yes, it's so, there is no belief without reasoning, and no reasoning without belief !

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About five centuries BC, Greece has been theater of essential conceptual headways which gave birth to physics and philosophy.
Nevertheless, this "childbirth" has not been without difficulty because it has "launched" a "war of the ideas and men, as for primordial causes", which continues since more of two thousand years.

Fortunately today, the ancestral Greek concept : logos (Héraclite - 55o, - 480), appears particularly realistic ; indeed, we must henceforth recognize undeniable role of the sense (notably of the word, …, of the information and of the processes organizations) in the management of the life's phenomenon and, ipso facto, of the universe this incommensurable creation for ever unfinished.
In principio erat Verbum ...  In the beginning was the Word ... (Jn 1, 1) ! 

To what is reality of mysterious activities of transcendent order, are implicated (associated),
an essential fact which should enable from establishing a reasoned tolerance between the men.
Is not it indispensable in this period of despair and of crisis which strike nowadays, humanity ?
Evidently, for it it is not enough to meet the others and to pray ; we must work motivated notably by ceaseless researchs of novelties, which take place in our cells. 

Let's beware then to holy Thomas speech :
"Vita contemplativa simpliciter melior est quam vita activa" - Contemplative life is more essential than active life - (Cf. Summa theologica),
this speech has today, no scientific and reasonable justification.

Saint Augustine who privileged l’"inquisitio, aut inventio veritatis : ut in ea quisque proficiat",
that is, who privileged inquiry or the truth's discovery, in order to have profit of it (Cf. De civitate Dei – XIX, 19),
was more realistic.

Let us repeat, we are,
and the poles (centres) of creative activities, not only indispensable to preservation and to development of our body, but also, necessary to life's phenomenon,
and ceaselessly reconstructed by permanent renewal of our cells and by continuous exchanges of cosmic particles.

Thus, creation and the faiths and researchs for knowledge that it presupposes, are essential acts ! 

Consequently, we understand better, interdependence of the faith and reasoned acts (of the reasoning), and vice versa.
You have noticed that we did not speak about reason; we use expression "reasoned acts", because reason is not an operator, no more than the consciousness or the thought moreover !

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Let's insist more.
Faith, fruit of presentiments and of abstract incitements, cannot be structured and expressed without acts of reason,
more exactly, cannot be structured and expressed without activities of transcendent order recognized as reasonings (as reasoned acts).

Alas, still today, it is only discussed of the monotheism by referring to events and to men (the prophets, saints, martyrs, theologians) who have "enamelled" its history, without speaking really of the realism of its dogmas.
However, is not it the realism, is not it the dogmas’s adequacy with reality’s knowledges, that give the credibility to post-mortem monotheists expectations ?

Actually, this problem has been evaded constantly ; the theologians, often bumptious, have persuaded the believers, that the faith is a specific gift of God implying no act of reason.
But it is not so ; not only faith presupposes conscious understandings and their logics, but also innate understandings.
Besides, at conscious level, these understandings, enriched by epoch truths and by civilizations truths, are evolutive.
Thus, without any doubt, the faith presupposes comprehensions, faith cannot be "dissociated" of logical reasonings (or of non-logical reasonings )
! God cannot change that ; it is a divine entity who acts in and by us, recognizing Herself in the I (me, ego, spirit).