ABSTRACT

I AT the risk of repeating myself, I shall begin this chapter by recalling two points.

(a) Even more than epistemology, physics and biology, aesthetics is for Pascal a secondary domain in which he is really very little in'terested, and which he mentions only incidentally. Ethics, on the other hand, has great importance because of its link with salvation, but does not, in spite of this, constitute an autonomous reality, for man can attain truth and goodness only through faith.1