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Podijeljeni Pascal: u potrazi za redom prirode
Asundered Pascal: In Search of Natural Order

Author(s): Roni Rengel
Subject(s): Early Modern Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion, 16th Century
Published by: Hrvatsko Filozofsko Društvo
Keywords: Blaise Pascal; Thoughts; fragments; fate; reason; theology; geometrical spirit; sensible spirit;

Summary/Abstract: In the paper, I deliver a fundamental structure of Pascal’s philosophy, as it is laid out in a posthumous 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.

  • Issue Year: 38/2018
  • Issue No: 03/151
  • Page Range: 615-624
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Croatian