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This 6 page report discusses François de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80) and Blaise Pascal (1623-62) who were both French, brilliant, and thoroughly involved in what has come to be thought of as the moralist tradition. Each was interested in the nature of human beings and human interaction. Each saw that social realities were of a far greater influence in the majority of people’s lives than any form of religion or faith. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of as the moralist tradition. What most prominently connects the two is their individual yet similar reflections on human psychology. Pascals knowledge was of a far more scientific basis and
his contributions to physics and mathematical thinking was only equaled by his philosophical precepts. La Rochefoucauld was no scientist but his brilliance was reflected in his political involvements and his
passion for devising the most clever of epigrammatic or to the point maxims. Between the two of them, their writings and their theories on politics, the way life should be
conducted, and for Pascal, scientific input shaped a great deal of the attitudes and opinions regarding French morality of the 1600s. The French moralist tradition was at its
highest point during the second half of the 17th-century, due in no small measure to the writings of Pascal and La Rochefoucauld. Fran?ois de La Rochefoucauld and the Maxime
At the core of his thinking and writing, La Rochefoucauld characterizes the most basic aspects of social order among humans to be always in jeopardy by the power of
human beings overwhelming self-concern. Such involvement with self can be controlled but it is never fully abolished. In essence, he is fully pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward
self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driven by it And yet, he also acknowledges that social relations are an absolutely necessary component of human existence. Therefore,
they have to be organized in ways that conquer the disorder that is always created by individual and even collective conceit. He thinks of human beings as being like wild
animals in a natural state of conflict and compares social relations as being at their most fundamentally human in the area of commerce. According to him, effectively managing social
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