Ive always loved the Musings in Pansees. Not because I agree with them all, but because you can feel that it was writen from pascal to pascal, like a diary. Its super intimate and you can see him working through his thoughts, and its very eloquent throughout. While other big name philosophical treatise were made to be published, and you can feel the impersonal writing style because of that fact. They are writing like they are speaking to an audience, while Pascal writes like he is confiding with someone close.>“Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take up arms to crush him: a vapour, a drop of water is enough to kill him. but even if the universe were to crush him, man would still be nobler than his slayer, because he knows that he is dying and the advantage the universe has over him. The universe knows none of this.”>"Thus all our dignity consists in thought. It is on thought that we much depend for our recovery, not on space and time, which we can never fill. Let us then strive to think well; that is the basic principle of Morality."There is some stuff that just sounds like cope too, but I think that just adds to the raw honesty of it that those biases are so bare. Like some of his comments about muhamidans.
>>24110523>panseesDidn't read the rest of your post.
>>24110580did you not like Pansees or did you take offence of me not using the french dash over the e?
>>24110594>PanseesDidn't read the rest of your reply.
>>24110609Panse(')es
>>24110523This is fantastic bait, well done. Best thing I’ve seen here for ages.
>>24110523Meh, it's mid. Philosophy has evolved so much since then that the assumptions he takes for granted are no longer trivial. If anything I wish it was more intimate like him talking about his day rather than drafts of incomplete ideas.
>>24110699>Philosophy has evolved so much since then that the assumptions he takes for granted are no longer trivial.I think I mentioned, it not so much him being the hight of philosophy for me, but really liking being able to trace someones thoughts. You can tell hes the kind of guy who gets all melancholy and tries to understand why things accure and what is it about things that He really apreciates. Here for example I find this a really compelling introspection about why he finds men fascinating on a basic level. Its like what someone would say if you got them really drunk and loose, but they are still artuculate, so they express what stands out to them about this or that small thing.
>>24110523Blaise Pascal - Penises
>>24110523I've never understood this bs that man is the only one who knows he's dying, animals run away from danger, they clearly know they are mortal and they know the reality of death as much as humans do
>>24110807>PeniDidn't read the rest of your post.
>>24110910An animal does not know anything, knowing implies reasoning, they only follow their instincts.
