Pascal the Philosopher: An Introduction
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Here is what we now need to consider: the Socrates of the Gorgias reasons from within a religious fortress and remains a philosopher. Pascal does it, and by many accounts forfeits the title of philosopher for that reason.
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Descartes vs. Pascal
Philosophers who deceive themselves and others with grandiose scientistic promises are [...] ridiculous. The very title of Descartes’s Principles of Philosophy angers Pascal. Even more absurd are the extravagant promises Descartes makes in the work itself. Not only will he deduce everything from first principles, he pretends, but he will also lift his readers to the heights of wisdom, perfect their lives, and crown them with felicity. Pascal can hardly find enough irony to pour on this kind of foolishness.
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The Failure of Philosophy According to Pascal
That is the next point Pascal wants us to see. We must combine scepticism and dogmatism, of course, if we are to understand the historic meaning of philosophy, which has always involved sceptical inquiry into dogmatism on the one hand and dogmatic resistance to scepticism on the other. But according to Pascal, those two activities do not fit together, and any attempt to bring them together fails. In a word, he thinks philosophy fails.
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Sceptics and Ordinary Life
In their ordinary lives sceptics find themselves under the humiliating necessity of imitating the behaviour of the same simple dogmatists to whom they feel theoretically superior. Sceptics may be giants in argument, but ordinary life cuts them down to size.
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