Three Errors about Indifference: Pascal on the Vacuum, Sociability, and Moral Freedom

Jones, Matthew L. Romance Quarterly 50 (2003): 99-120.

 This article explains the views of French philosopher Blaise Pascal against the philosophical and theological legitimization of a godly worldly life by the Jesuits. It also provides background on Jesuit philosopher Pierre LeMoyne's ordered world of natural inclinations, the attribution of inclinations, sensations, and thoughts to brute matter, and Pascal's views on the vacuum.