Ömer
@Pascalian
«Yusuf’un masalı neden Yusuf’la başlamıyor?
Bir Şivekâr varmış, bir genç kız, Yusuf yokmuş.»
Pascal is not prepared to consider justice as a secular virtue. He thinks our idea of justice is religious in origin and for that very reason sets a standard that earthly polities recognize but cannot meet.
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Like other leading scientists of his day, Pascal regarded the universe as infinitely vast. Borrowing a phrase from Nicholas of Cusa, he called it “an infinite sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere.”
Pascal’s “remarkable brilliance,” as one writer terms it, “lies in the fact that at the very beginning of the modern era he had already recognized that modern science’s self-confident belief that it possessed a secure method is illusory and a pretension.”
One of my teachers used to say that the purpose of philosophy was to replace opinion with knowledge. (I think he may have got that from Plato.)
Moral perfectionism is what Epictetus chiefly has in mind. The mental rest called ataraxia – moral perfection’s fruit – beckons seductively from every page. Pascal denies we can find such peace of mind and writes against it. When he does so, Epictetus is the philosopher he has in view, though sceptics and Epicureans could have been attacked for the same thing.