1 Pascal’s life and times; 2 Pascal’s reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes; 3 Pascal’s work on probability; 4 Pascal and decision theory; 5 Pascal’s physics; 6 Pascal’s philosophy of science; 7 Pascal’s theory of knowledge; 8 Grace and religious belief in Pascal; 9 Pascal and holy writ; 10 Pascal’s Lettres ...
Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1662 Born in Montferrand France Very poor health all of his life Educated at home by his father in mathematics Education focused on classical languages and mathematics, Not trained in theology or philosophy 23 November 1654, has a religious conversion After 1654 terminated the mathematical discussions Final period of his live was dominated by religious
For Pascal, the empirical knowledge gathered through our senses, the theoretical elaboration of such knowledge based upon the use of our rational faculties, and the heart as the basis of intuitive knowing: all three are necessary to glimpse, however dimly some aspects of the transcendent mystery hidden at the core of the universe and of our own ...
Blaise Pascal: Commentaires. Paris: Vrin, 1966. Paris: Vrin, 1966. This is a collection of six interrelated essays by Gouhier on central features of Pascal’s intellectual life, such as the so-called Memorial , the discussion with “M. de Sacy” (Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy), the hidden God, the wager argument, and the formulary—all of ...
Pascal's Theory of Scientific Knowledge KEITH ARNOLD 1. INTRODUCTION TO track the truth with our theories, hypotheses, and beliefs requires procedures and methods which are reliable.' ... All references to Pascal's work are to the Brunschvicg, Boutroux and Gazier edition: Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal, 14 vols. (Paris: Hachette, 19o4-1914, reprinted ...
Blaise Pascal’s legacy is a testament to the boundless potential of the human mind. His ideas, spanning mathematics, physics, philosophy, and theology, continue to shape the intellectual landscape.
Blaise Pascal was a French Physicist, Mathematician, and Theologian. He was born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand. He founded the modern theory of probability. ... He did not publish a separate essay or letter on the theory of knowledge, but his other articles and notes provide an overall view on this subject. Though he left contradictory ...
In the next section I will present his theory of knowledge. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) on Knowledge With his fresh understanding of the heart, based on the biblical and Augustinian tradition, Pascal made a pronounced contribution to the debates on human being in Europe in the middle of the seventeenth century that is still relevant.
Pascal did not set out a coherent theory of knowledge or philosophy of science in any single text. His essays on the vacuum (written during the late 1640s), De l'esprit géométrique (1655), and the Entretien avec M. de Sacy (published posthumously), provide indications of conflicting intuitions about natural knowledge, although they all accept ...
The guiding intuition behind this disquisition is that Blaise Pascal and Ludwig Wittgenstein are similar philosophers with similar philosophies. This intuition is not argued in its entirety here. Instead, the author seeks to establish a limited version of this intuition as his thesis; viz., that Wittgenstein and Pascal share six elements of their theories of knowledge.
Blaise Pascal takes up an interesting place in the history of philosophy. ... in Nietzsche’s thought, of a mere “religious man.” However, Pascal has a nuanced theory of reason that accounts for the relevant human faculties and makes an important contribution to the history of political philosophy. ... knowledge.5 To put it another way, he ...
It was in the first half of the 17th century that the important French mathematician and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) emerged. ... the true method to come to the knowledge of all things. His method, which consisted of four precepts that he called "chains of reasons", was based solely on reason (DESCARTES, 2017, p.20 ...
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher whose work influenced both the Scientific Revolution and later European thought. Pascal is known for his practical achievements in science, such as a calculating machine, demonstration of the variations possible in air pressure depending on altitude, and a theory of probability.
Abstract The article analyzes the concept of the heart in Blaise Pascal’s (1623–62) Pensées in the context of the Platonic tradition. Augustine (354–430) is described as the main author who mediated to Pascal Plotinus’s view of nous as the intuitive and integrative faculty, superior to discursive and conceptual reason, which can be, ultimately, identified with Pascal’s coeur.
Blaise Pascal: French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher, 1623-1662. ... In Pascal’s view, acquiring self-knowledge was a necessary stage on the way to ...
Rather than presenting a Pascal bifurcated into religious and scientific halves (a picture he and his family did much to propagate), I argue that the practices and concepts in Pascal's earliest physical writings made up core elements of the innovative epistemological account and persuasive techniques in his Pensées of the late 1650s. 6 Pascal's solution comprised the non-linear and non ...
Blaise Pascal about the limitations of human knowledge and the role of reason and faith ... His invention of the mechanical calculator at the age of 19 and his groundbreaking work on probability theory demonstrate his commitment to rational inquiry and scientific advancement. ... “The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of ...
