"That is a good book it seems to me, which is opened with expectation and closed with profit."
Louisa May Alcott
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Pascal's Pensees. Read it. Now.
This was one of the many books we were assigned to read in my Honors class last semester. I began reading it begrudgingly, expecting it to be just another philosophy book (which 9 times out of 10 confuse me). Boy, was I wrong!
Pascal isn't just another philosopher with his head in the clouds, he deals with man as he is. He admits that man is fallen (unlike the humanists before him) and yet he does not despair (like many philosophers who seem to throw up their hands in defeat at the thought of man being a fallen creature). Pascal believes that it is Christ whom fallen man can humble himself before without despair.
There is so much more to Pascal's Pensees than simply his famous "Wager."
This was one of the many books we were assigned to read in my Honors class last semester. I began reading it begrudgingly, expecting it to be just another philosophy book (which 9 times out of 10 confuse me). Boy, was I wrong!
Pascal isn't just another philosopher with his head in the clouds, he deals with man as he is. He admits that man is fallen (unlike the humanists before him) and yet he does not despair (like many philosophers who seem to throw up their hands in defeat at the thought of man being a fallen creature). Pascal believes that it is Christ whom fallen man can humble himself before without despair.
There is so much more to Pascal's Pensees than simply his famous "Wager."
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