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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! We get into the obvious objections. 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.
Pascal picture by Drew Blom.
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The secular, popular equivalent of Fallenness, is like the movie Out of the Silent Planet, “the monsters from the Id”.
I was somewhat surprised by how much I enjoyed this episode and Pascal in general. In particular, his idea of imagination and the role it plays in society, custom, power as well as its relationship to reason. I thought that was incredibly perceptive and insightful. As with most philosophers, I think I’ll take with those insights and things that I like and just leave the bits I don’t (or chalk it up to time period).
Good stuff guys made my commute to work through traffic a bit easier to endure!