This article is taken from the
Figaro Special Edition
“Pascal, the heart and reason”.
In this special issue, discover the ardent life of Pascal between Clermont, Paris and Port-Royal, his mathematical genius, his inventions, his virtuoso style, his sublime
Thoughts
.
Cover of “Pascal, the heart and reason”,
Le Figaro Hors-série
Le Figaro Hors-série
Where to classify Blaise Pascal?
Scientist, theologian and mystic, writer, polemicist?
If there is in any case a title that he could never have imagined being awarded one day, it is undoubtedly that of philosopher.
Pascal's relationship to philosophy has in fact always been that of looking at this discipline from the outside: his main interest in it stemmed from the observation of its systematic failure, and the consequences it was possible to draw from it.
Needless to say the surprise which would be his today, if he learned that the
Pensées
had attained an exceptional notoriety, not for the apologetic project which animated them, the defense of the truth of the Christian religion, such as it had …
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