Rhetorical Theory of Blaise PascalUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968 |
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... SELF - LOVE RESPONSES IN ITS AUDIENCE Pascal believed that man is motivated by concern for moi . The power of self - love is expressed in the 100th pensée , part of which states : Amour - propre . --La nature de l'amour - propre et de ...
... SELF - LOVE RESPONSES IN ITS AUDIENCE Pascal believed that man is motivated by concern for moi . The power of self - love is expressed in the 100th pensée , part of which states : Amour - propre . --La nature de l'amour - propre et de ...
Page 107
... self - love . A belief in the dominance of self - love among man's motivating forces , undergirds two additional thoughts on persuasion found in the ninth and tenth pensees : against that truth which reproves him and which convinces him ...
... self - love . A belief in the dominance of self - love among man's motivating forces , undergirds two additional thoughts on persuasion found in the ninth and tenth pensees : against that truth which reproves him and which convinces him ...
Page 120
... self- love , truth alone will not persuade him ; truth presented so as to please is required . Secondly , Pascal believed that man's passions and imagination were powerful antagonists of truth and thus would not allow man to accept a ...
... self- love , truth alone will not persuade him ; truth presented so as to please is required . Secondly , Pascal believed that man's passions and imagination were powerful antagonists of truth and thus would not allow man to accept a ...
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according to Pascal Antoine Arnauld art of convincing art of demonstrating art of persuasion art of pleasing authority automaton autre avoir avoués axioms bien Blaise Pascal Brunschvicg c'est caprices Chevalier choses coeur contraire coutume créance croire custom d'eux definitions Descartes deux Dieu dire divine effect elle eloquence enemies être faire fait faith fausses faut fiftieth pensée Geometrical Demonstration heart honnête homme imagination incline Jacques Chevalier jamais Jansenist l'autre L'Esprit géométrique l'homme l'un mind n'est n'y a point natural discourse natural style naturelle Pascal believed Pascal writes Pascal's art Pascal's rhetorical Pascal's thoughts pensee periphrasis personnes persuades by sweetness peut plaisirs plein preuves principles proofs Provincial Letters qu'elle qu'il qu'on qu'un qualité que les raison reason règle religion rien rules s'il Scofield Scripture sens seule sont soul sources of belief things Topliss tout trans Trotter vérité voir voit volonté vrai Western World Chicago words