Port-Royal Augustinianism · experimental science · 1623–1662
Blaise Pascal
Measure reason by what exceeds it.
Clermont · Rouen · Paris
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Misery, diversion and the wager
Follow the Pensées from the analysis of human restlessness to the argument that one must wager.
PenséesCasuistry and irony
Study how the Provincial Letters turn quotations from moral theologians into a public argument about conscience.
The Provincial LettersExperiment against authority
Reconstruct the experiments on the vacuum and Pascal’s rules for testing a hypothesis against the phenomena.
Writings on the Vacuum and the Weight of Air