Blaise Pascal - Pensees

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. 

Specifically it discusses two key aspects of human being, what he calls the greatness (grandeur) and the misery (misere). Pascal thinks that many people go astray by attending only to one of these aspects, without paying attention to the other.

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Pascal Pensees - The Greatness And Misery Of Human Being - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. 

Specifically it discusses his conception of the three orders, namely those of bodies or flesh, the mind and knowledge, and the will or love.  There are people primarily focused on and oriented to the matters of each of these orders. The orders are incommensurable with each other, differing not only in object but also in value

This is discussed primarily in sections 460 and 793 in the Brunschvicg edition.

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Pascal Pensees - The Three Orders: Flesh, The Mind, and Love - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. 

Specifically it discusses the passage in which he writes: "C’est une sphère infinie dont le centre est partout, la circonférence nulle part" (71, in the Léon Brunschvicg edition). As it turns out, this expression has a history, and Pascal also adds to the concepts involved in a few other passages.


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Pascal Pensees - The Infinite Sphere, Its Circumference, And Its Center - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. 

Specifically it discusses  the "heart" and its relationship and distinction from reason in a human being. This is spurred specifically by the famous passage contained in section 277, that runs: "Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point".

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Pascal Pensees - The Reasons Of The Heart - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. 

Specifically it discusses the power imagination exercises over the faculty of reason in human beings. Pascal thinks that imagination plays a much greater role in human affairs and matters, and that it isn't reasonable to give reason priority all of the time. This is discussed primarily in section 82 in the Brunschvicg edition.

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Pascal Pensees - The Power Of Imagination Over Reason - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. 

Specifically it discusses how human beings wind up with differing conceptions of what is just and unjust. Pascal notes that what is considered right or wrong, true or false, varies considerably from country to country. When we look for a universal natural law or the essence of justice, we don't find these in any particular society, and we tend to erode the power of custom

This is discussed primarily in section 291-294 in the Brunschvicg edition.

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Pascal Pensees - Differing Conceptions Of Justice - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees. 

Specifically it discusses the criticism he makes of the Stoics, naming Epictetus but also having in mind the neo-Stoics of his time. His criticism is that they are partly right, but miss where they've got things wrong and others have them right, which leads to a kind of onesidedness

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Pascal Pensees - Criticism Of The Stoics - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his views on the "two infinites" - the infinitely great and the infinitely small (the latter of which, in his view still contains a great amount of stuff) - and their implications for human beings.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Two Infinites - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his famous "Wager" about the existence of God.  Pascal argues that one has to choose one way or another about the matter, in how one lives and commits one's life.  He frames the problem in terms of a bet or gamble, in which we stake our present life, and have a possibility to win eternal happiness and life.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Wager About God's Existence - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses what "tyranny" - including but going beyond the political sense - consists in. In his view, the basis of tyranny is the desire to dominate beyond one's own area of legitimate value, competence, or scope.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - What Tyranny Consists In - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his advice about how to get a person to accept criticism or correction. Pascal notes that nobody wants to be told he or she is simply wrong about an issue, but people are willing to admit that their view of matters is one-sided.


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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Correcting By Revealing One-Sidedness - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his distinction between two different mindsets or perspectives, the "intuitive mind" (l'esprit de finesse)  and the mathematical mind (l'esprit de géométrie).  Both of these have to do with how persons perceive and understand "axioms" or basic principles relevant to a subject matter.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The Intuitive And Mathematical Minds - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses about how self-love (amour propre) renders human beings averse to acknowledging the truth about themselves, others, and the world.  Self love makes us prefer a false self-image to the truth of who we are, and we pressure others to lie to us about who we are what qualities we possess (or lack).

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Self-Love And Aversion To Truth - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses the role that "diversions" (divertissments) play in our lives.  We engage in them at least in part, to avoid facing up to our actual condition, which is typically more miserable than we acknowledge.  We also engage in them, aiming to enjoy some happiness, not realizing that genuine happiness lies elsewhere.

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - Diversions, Happiness, And Misery - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 16th century philosopher, theologian, and mathematician, Blaise Pascal, and focuses on his work, the Pensees.  Specifically it discusses his distinction between two different conceptions of God - God as understood by the philosophers, and the God of religious believers, the "God of faith".

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Blaise Pascal, Pensees - The God Of Philosophers And The God Of Faith - Sadler's Lectures

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