Disconcerted Subjectivity: Pascal and the Tragic Thought

Authors

  • Carlos Gómez Sánchez Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.35.2015.13429

Keywords:

Pascal, Kant, antropología, razón, religión.

Abstract

After indicating some reasons why Pascal continues to be valid and analyzing the main lines of his social and ideological context (with special emphasis on Jansenism and the polemic of The Provincial Letters), the problems for publishing and interpreting Pensées are considered. After this, some of the main thematic, anthropological, and epistemological nuclei are analyzed. Finally, an interpretation of le pari is set forth as a basis for discussing the relationship between reason and religion, underlining the link between Pascal and Kant, who made Pascal the Newton of the Kantian philosophy of religion (similarly to Kant’s statement that Rousseau, for him, had been the Newton of morals).  

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Author Biography

Carlos Gómez Sánchez, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Departamento de Filosofía y Filosofía Moral y Política

Catedrático de Filosofía Moral y Política

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Published

2015-06-19

How to Cite

Gómez Sánchez, C. (2015). Disconcerted Subjectivity: Pascal and the Tragic Thought. ENDOXA, (35), 69–108. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.35.2015.13429

Issue

No. 35 (2015)

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Papers and Texts

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