Episode 184: Pascal on Human Nature (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2018
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Continuing on Pascal's Pensées. More on our human desire and how God is supposed to address that, plus Pascal's views on political philosophy, the relation between faith, reason, and custom... and finally the wager! Why not just be a skeptic? Is Pascal right that people suck?
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End song: "44 Days" by Dutch Henry, written and sung by Todd Long, as interviewed on Nakedly Examined Music #34.
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| 0:47.2 | You're listening to Partial Exam of Life, episode 184, |
| 0:50.4 | Part 2 on Pasco's Ponce. |
| 0:53.7 | So I think we're about up to chapter 3 in the Penguin Classics Edition on wretchedness. |
| 0:58.9 | We just introduced the notion of self, |
| 1:01.3 | the self in hating each other and the political stuff, |
| 1:03.3 | spelling that out a little in a little more detail if we didn't already |
| 1:06.9 | reason versus faith in the wager. |
| 1:09.1 | Those are at least things. |
| 1:10.6 | What are your thoughts? |
| 1:11.9 | Chapters 1 through 8, I see, is like the, you know, |
| 1:14.2 | and I'm just agreeing with you, Mark, |
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