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AFTER Rene Descartes, France was gifted with another brilliant mind: Blaise Pascal.
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Delicate health forced him to tutoring at home. Despite lacking formal teaching, the young Pascal taught himself mathematics, Greek and Latin. The young genius also devised a perpetual motion machine.
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was in religion and philosophy where Blaise Pascal excelled as shown in
his work, Pensees. He fought the Jesuits for their flippant
“casuistry,” wrote critically against the established Church especially
when he fell under the influence of an extra-conservative religious
faction of Port-Royal. Their leader was a heretical Dutch bishop,
Cornelius Jansen, who preached only the good and pure will be saved.
Against those who still doubt God’s existence, Pascal formulated his famous “Pascal’s Wager.”
Source: SunStar Philippines
