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https://doi.org/10.21464/fi38311

Asundered Pascal: In Search of Natural Order

Roni Rengel orcid.org/0000-0002-6553-0614 ; Pavla Radića 34, HR-33000 Virovitica

Abstract

In the paper, I deliver a fundamental structure of Pascal's philosophy, as it is laid out in a post-humous collection gathered under the title Thoughts. Besides apories, to which Pascal arrives through haggling of geometrical and sensible spirit, sequencing and directness, fate and reason etc., attention will also be organized around places of theological content. Through text, I will lay Pascal's philosophy in relation to philosophers who, in a certain sense, share his pathos, primarily fragmentary philosophers – from predecessors and contemporaries (Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld) to successors (romantics, Nietzsche, Jaspers). Finally, I will offer a possibility for the non-theistic reading of Pascal's text.

Keywords

Blaise Pascal; Thoughts; fragments; fate; reason; theology; geometrical spirit; sensible spirit

Hrčak ID:

215036

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/215036

Publication date:

13.11.2018.

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