This article considers the differences between Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger in light of Pascal’s distinction between the esprit de géometrie and the esprit de finesse. According to Pascal, the essential “principles” dominating our perceptual lives cannot be clearly and confidently demonstrated in a manner akin to logic and mathematics, but must be discerned in a more spontaneous or intuitive manner.

It is unsurprising that Husserl, originally a student of mathematics, might seem closer to the esprit de géometrie, whereas Heidegger, trained in theology and drawn to poets and poetic thinkers, is closer to the esprit de finesse. This difference is clear from the styles of writing of these two seminal figures. I consider how this stylistic difference is also linked with the substance of their respective philosophies, and with the approaches they recommend for exploring subjective life. A related difference concerns how each theorist responds to what Husserl called the “paradox of human subjectivity” and what Michel Foucault later termed the “empirico-transcendental doublet”: the fact that, in doing phenomenology, human consciousness exists as both the subject and the object of our knowing. Husserl mostly emphasized the advantages, epistemological and existential, that this potential reflexivity can afford. Heidegger was more interested in the obstacles or traps it sets—both for accurate self-knowledge and for authentic living. These issues are discussed in relation to the “natural attitude” and “everydayness,” and to the linguistic grounding of human existence and knowledge—especially as these issues emerge in Foucault’s Les mots et les choses and Eugen Fink’s Sixth Cartesian Meditation.

本文根据帕斯卡尔（Pascal）在esprit degéometrie 和 esprit de finesse之间的区别来考虑Edmund Husserl和Martin Heidegger之间的区别 。帕斯卡认为，支配我们感知生活的基本“原理”无法以类似于逻辑和数学的方式清晰，自信地展示出来，而必须以更自发或直观的方式加以辨别。

毫不奇怪的是，原本是数学系学生的胡塞尔（Husserl）似乎更接近 esprit degéometrie，而接受过神学训练并吸引诗人和诗意思想家的海德格尔（Heidegger）更接近于 esprit de fisse。从这两个开创性人物的写作风格可以明显看出这一差异。我认为这种风格上的 差异也如何 与实质联系在一起  他们各自的哲学，以及他们推荐的探索主观生活的方法。一个相关的差异就是如何每个理论家响应胡塞尔叫什么福柯后来被称为“empirico先验双峰”，“人的主体性的悖论”：即，在做现象，人的意识存在为主题的两个事实 ，并 在我们知道的对象。胡塞尔（Husserl）主要强调了这种潜在的反思性所能提供的 优势，认识论和存在性。海德格尔对障碍 或 陷阱更感兴趣  它既设定了正确的自我知识，又提供了真实的生活。这些问题是与“自然态度”和“日常”以及人类生存和知识的语言学基础有关的，尤其是在福柯的《乐章》和《尤金·芬克的第六次笛卡尔冥想》中出现了这些问题时。