Blaise Pascal Archives ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Blaise Pascal: The Mathematical and the Intuitive Mind

By Nayeli Riano|2019-06-13T11:30:50-05:00January 31st, 2019|Categories: Blaise Pascal, Christianity, Great Books, Philosophy, Religion|

Blaise Pascal’s argument in favor of Christianity was simple: Faith is so perceptible, even so palpable, to the intuition that man needs only to be in the world to realize that there must be more. Christianity has a direct connection to the heart; as Pascal said, “the heart has its reasons, which reason does not know”... [...]

How to Know if You’re a Fool

By Caitlin Gilbert|2019-06-24T16:14:36-05:00November 24th, 2018|Categories: Blaise Pascal, Christianity, Faith, Philosophy|

I’m not sure there’s a more important author for teenagers right now than Blaise Pascal, but not for the thing he’s most famous for. I remember in high school and college reading his most famous argument, “the wager,” in which he proposes that it is most reasonable to follow God, even if we can’t [...]