Why Pascal?—One More Time

The Christian Study Center hosted a kick-off event to launch the spring semester this week, and as part of the event Dr. Richard Horner, our executive director, presented a talk titled, “Why Pascal?—One More Time.” Audio of that talk and an engaging Q/A session that followed is included here.

The talk explored the continuing relevance of the thought of Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth century French philosopher and mathematician, who has played a critical role in Dr. Horner’s own thinking about the nature of the modern world.

This talk also sets up the reading group Dr. Horner will be leading throughout the semester beginning next Friday, February 4th at noon. The group, titled “Pascal and His Heirs,” will meet at the study center and the readings will come from the writings of Pascal, Flannery O’Connor, Leszek Kolakowski, and Merold Westphal.

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