
Money or Meaning? A Discussion on Choice and Restlessness with Ben and Jenna Storey
New Books in Higher Education
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The Different Views of Restlessness
In your last book you laid out kind of these two thinkers vontainment Pascal and they both have very different ideas about what it's like to be restful. You're right that the Montana Pascal conceive of restlessness differently uh montane thinks we're naturally restless and we need to learn to be at home Pascal thinks we're Naturally restless and that restlessness is the core of what we are famously says man transcends man Pascal believes in a transcendent good but for us I think the problem looks different and even opposed to that. We can make whatever choices we want as long as we don't take any of them too seriously said Montaigne.
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