
Seminar 1 | Structuring Pensées
Peter Rollins - The Archive
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The Power of Reason
Pascal outlines basically the high on a bodily level even when you're successful and he was successful Pascal in worldly terms so he wasn't writing this as someone who wasn't successful right it was like the guy who wrote Ecclesiastes. He has an insight into the human condition that is as powerful as you find in nature as searingly brilliant and incisive as you found in Freud but also foreshadows existentialism in his work. The order of reason again potentially in this imagined structure but definitely it's in Pascal he wants to go reason is incredible but also reason tells us how small we are It tells us how great we are and howsmall we are and it also tells us if
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