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| Blaise Pascal: Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. His major works include Traité du vide (Treatise on the Vacuum), Pensées (Thoughts), Les Provinciales (Provincial Letters), Traité des probabilités (Treatise on Probabilities)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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D. A. F. de Sade on Pascal - Dictionary of Arguments
Brocker I 328 Pascal/Belief/Rationality/God/SadeVsPascal/Sade: At the end of the novel Juliette, the sister of the protagonist, Justine, runs into a thunderstorm and the villain Noirceuil bets that he will become a believer if God will spare her, but then lightning strikes her - which he sees as the triumphal proof of the non-existence of God - de Sade turns Pascal's famous bet over: According to Pascal, one can only win if one believes, because one does not lose anything, there should not be God, but eternal life wins if he does exist. "So there is a bet of the free-thinker as a replica of that by Pascal"(1). >Rationality, >Rationalism, >Pascal, >Proof of God's existence. 1. Albert Camus, L’Homme révolté, Paris 1951. Dt.: Albert Camus, Der Mensch in der Revolte. Essays, Reinbek 1969 (zuerst 1953), S. 32. Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann, „Albert Camus, Der Mensch in der Revolte (1951)“ in: Manfred Brocker (Hg.) Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert. Frankfurt/M. 2018._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Sade, D. A. F. de Brocker I Manfred Brocker Geschichte des politischen Denkens. Das 20. Jahrhundert Frankfurt/M. 2018 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28