PhilosophersBlaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Augustinianism · Jansenism (Port-Royal)1623 – 1662 FranceBelieverMathematicianCritic of reason aloneMoralist

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1647

New Experiments Concerning the Vacuum

His experiments on the vacuum, against the idea that "nature abhors a vacuum".

Written and published by the author

1656

The Provincial Letters essential

Eighteen letters published under a pseudonym (Louis de Montalte), against what he saw as the lax morality of some Jesuits.

Written and published by the author

1670

Pensées essential

Fragments of an unfinished defence of Christianity, found after his death. The order is the editors': hence several numbering systems (Brunschvicg, Lafuma, Sellier).

Written by the author, published posthumously

1728

Conversation with M. de Sacy

A conversation about Epictetus and Montaigne, reported by Nicolas Fontaine, Sacy's secretary: not Pascal's exact words.

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