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
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"Blaise Pascal, The heart and reason" Figaro Special Edition
To elucidate Pascal's itinerary is to attempt to know what is involved in the Christian man.
Less the religious man or in search than the man of faith, as depicted in Scripture and the Tradition of the Church.
But the (short) life of Pascal is also stamped with the seal of greatness.
He is a devout Christian, or elite, even a saint.
He is still a creative genius of the rarest originality.
The strength of his mind bends the intelligence of others in the direction he wants: Montaigne, libertines, mathematical problems, all are jostled.
He saw, as actor as much as witness, the upheavals accompanying the advent of science which overthrew theology from its throne.
In deep communion with his age, he experienced...
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