Eight Videos On Blaise Pascal's Pensées

Some time back, I decided to shoot some core concept videos on one of my favorite books of philosophy, Blaise Pascal's unfinished but brilliant work, the Pensées.  It's a work that I first encountered back in graduate school, and have often drawn upon, but don't often have a pretext to teach (perhaps I should find one!) in my classes.

The Pensées is a pretty lengthy and quite complex work, so what I've done in these seven videos is in some respects just scratching the surface.  Some of the ideas and arguments, though, are among those Pascal is best remembered for.  I hope eventually to return to the text and produce a number of additional videos covering key ideas and distinctions in it.

For the time being, here are those eight videos

• The Intuitive Mind and the Mathematical Mind 
• Correcting By Revealing One-Sidedness
• Diversions, Happiness, and Misery
• Self-Love and Aversion to Truth
• The Two Infinites
• What Tyranny Consists In
• The Philosophers' God and the God of Faith
• The Wager About God's Existence