Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

Thesis statement

“The painting is the best way to express the feelings of one”.

Introduction

Michel Montaigne was born in 1533, at Bordeaux; he began his essays as a stoical humanist, continued them as a skeptic, and concluded them as someone concerned with the condition of human beings. Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand France. This evolution, one substantially agreed upon by Montaigne scholars, is apparent in The Essays. After Pascal and the Jesuits, I would like to study Pascal and Montaigne, Pascal, or rather thinker and apologist of Christianity, noting in particular what distinguishes the author of the Essays. It probably will not say that the subject deviates from current concerns of theological thought.

By a turn of events here below, in which witnesses are often unable to discern the motives determining the theological and philosophical thought in German and French back ground on all sides and at every few years the problem of certainty. In Germany, Ritschl and his school in France, Switzerland, the Swiss Society pastoral itself, as seen in its session held in Lausanne in 1888, all suffer, in their perhaps unwittingly, the influence of the same microbes that inhabit the atmosphere of the world of intelligences, wondering, each in its own way, what is religious certainty, moral certainty material itself, and each in its own way also provides a solution to the issue which raises doubt. The three volumes include writings such as “To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die,” in which Montaigne considers how human beings should face pain and die; writings such as the famous “Apology for Raimond Sebond,” in which the skeptical attack on dogmatism in philosophy and religion is most evident; and writings such as “The Education of Children,” in which Montaigne makes a constructive effort to encourage humans to know themselves and naturally for the good of all.

Background

No man has probably possessed the same degree as Pascal these two qualities that seem mutually exclusive and that seeks, in effect, to oppose more to each other in the two major directions printed at this time to higher education .Not all of Montaigne's essays reflect the major stages of his transformation from stoic and skeptic to a man of righteous will. Thus, he wrote of sadness, constancy, fear, friendship (with particular reference to La Boétie), moderation, solitude, sleep, names, and books. These essays are lively, imaginative and inform with the knowledge of a gentleman well trained in the classics.

He is most eloquent when he writes of pain and death, as when he refers to his own long struggle with kidney stones and to the deaths of those he loved, and when he writes of his need for faith and of the human need for self-knowledge. In such essays, the perfect stylist, educated thinker, and struggling human being are one. It was in the essaying of himself that Montaigne became a brilliant essayist.

To what extent is Pascal's characterization of Montaigne Accurate?

The Pascal's wager is an assumption of a Christian philosopher and scientist ...