Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On Blaise Pascal's Pensées (1670). Is it rational to have religious faith? You're likely familiar with "Pascal's Wager," but our wretchedness is such that we can't simply choose to believe and won't be argued into it. Pascal thinks Christianity is the only religion to accurately describe the human condition.
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| 0:53.0 | Our question for episode 184 is something like, what is the human condition or maybe is it rational to have religious faith? |
| 0:59.0 | We read, blizz, pasco, pince, a collection of fragments of an incomplete work written up to the author's death in 1662. |
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| 1:11.0 | This is Mark Linson-Mire, great because I realize my wretchedness in Madison, Wisconsin. |
| 1:17.0 | This is Wesolone wiping my beak in Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
| 1:21.0 | This is Dylan Casey, wallowing my concubescence in Middleton, Wisconsin. |
| 1:25.0 | Oh my. I'll have you know that the translation that I initially listened to all the way through that I looked at. |
| 1:33.0 | The Trotter? Yes, the Trotter. 1910 uses lust, which I like better than concubescence just because concubescence is a stupid long word. |
| 1:41.0 | It's much easier to take notes if you're writing down lust. |
| 1:45.0 | Every time I'm in concubescence. |
| 1:47.0 | I can keep in mind that lust doesn't just mean animal sex lust. |
| 1:50.0 | Lust for glory, there's lots of lust. It's not that much for problem. |
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