The secret: essential for living well?
Without secrecy, no relationship is possible. You can think of secrecy as a hidden, dark place. But in the opposite direction, if there were no secret, everything would be pure. …
Category: Philosophy
The vanity of painting – Blaise Pascal
In his Pensées, 40–134, Pascal states: What vanity is painting, which attracts admiration by the resemblance of things, whose originals are not admired! The pictorial representation is thus for Pascal …
Saint Augustine – Science
Saint Augustine was both a theologian and a philosopher. In his work, he reflects on science. Indeed, in book X of the Confessions (397–400), Saint Augustine shows that the sciences – in …
Pascal – Science endangered by imagination
In the Pensées, 44, Blaise Pascal talks about imagination. Imagination, as it is deceptive, presents a danger for reason. It is thus opposed to knowledge. It is misleading for science. …
Michel Serres – 3 types of secrets
Michel Serres, a philosopher specializing in the history of science, distinguishes three types of secrets: We can easily distinguish three types of secrets. The socio-political secret, well analyzed everywhere: knowledge …
The mystery and the secret
To understand the relationship between mystery and secrecy, we begin by defining these concepts and how they concern us. Jankélévitch will help us to explain what distinguishes them. Definitions of …