PASCAL ON THE POSSIBILITY OF ATTAINING HAPPINESS
PASCAL ON THE POSSIBILITY OF ATTAINING HAPPINESS

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper can be resumed as the attempt to, in a first moment, delineate themanner through which, according to Pascal, we access the world – and here there is alreadythe presuppositional thesis that there is effectively at least one way to access the world as theworld that it is -, in what conditions that access is made, both relating to the subject and themilieu in which the subject finds himself (that is, taking into account the conditioning world,as well as the limitations which are inherent to a subject that is rooted in the world), and,finally, to inquire the possibility – and, if the possibility is affirmed, to investigate if there issuch thing as a necessity – of modifying the way of being in the world, in view of replenishingthe profound abyss that exists in a will eager of attaining happiness.

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