Pascal’s ungraspable self compared to the strength of the cartesian subject
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2010.i42.695Keywords:
Pascal, Descartes, subject, self, orders of reality, reason, heartAbstract
Compared to Descartes, who attempted to make the thinking subject the centre and strengthen its power, Pascal was confronted with the contingency, chance and opacity of human existence. He tried to «decentralise» the subject and delve further into its deepest dissonance. He classified three unmeasurable orders of reality: body, spirit and charity. On a moral level, for Pascal the «ordo amoris» represents the absolute viewpoint to which all relative points of view are ordered. Only through a release from the desire of domination can the human being discover true justice and goodness.
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