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Sep 26, 2024 · Pascal’s father, Étienne Pascal, was presiding judge of the tax court at Clermont-Ferrand. His mother died in 1626, and in 1631 the family moved to Paris . Étienne, who was respected as a mathematician, devoted himself henceforth to the education of his children.
Nov 25, 2014 · Introduction. During his relatively short life (b. 1623–d. 1662), Blaise Pascal published no works that would be classified as philosophy in the early 21st century. He did, however, publish two short tracts on the Torricelli vacuum, and, between 1656 and 1657, he circulated anonymously a series of letters about moral casuistry and grace that ...
Aug 21, 2007 · One of the most famous and most extensive notes in the Pensées (Fragment 397: II, 676–81) is the so-called ‘wager’ in favour of belief in God. Cole (1995, Chapter 15) argues that Pascal exhibited signs of manic depression and an almost infantile dependence on his family in his mature years.
Jul 14, 2018 · Pascal developed a view of the human condition modeled on the existence of the vacuum in nature, which he sought to prove in the realm of physics. He thus established a parallel between the emptiness in nature and the emptiness within the human. For Pascal, the human stands apart from God’s created world.
- Isabel Sobral Campos
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Jan 22, 2024 · Blaise Pascal is known for being a French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. He conducted pioneering experiments with barometers, invented a calculating machine, proposed that belief in god was one's best bet (Pascal's wager), and has several mathematical theorems named after him.
- Mark Cartwright
1. Human nature is not purely physical. Pascal upholds a broadly Cartesian dualist view. He acknowledges the difficulty of this but also insists on the difficulty of any alternative explanation, for instance, in purely physical terms. 2. Humankind is radically distinct from the animals.
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Sep 28, 2018 · In chapter 1, James Franklin provides valuable historical context for understanding Pascal’s Wager through an appreciation of its intended audience. Franklin shows that the argument emerged from deeply ingrained ideas about religion as a practical way of reasoning about high-stakes situations.
