ABSTRACT
Every cosmology has its correlated ethic. This chapter illustrates the application of our ethical principles in life. Good and evil exist on the plane of the body and its sensations, on the plane of the emotions, and on the plane of the intellect. For Pascal, sickness is the truly Christian condition; for, by mechanically freeing men from some, at least, of the passions, it delivers them from all manner of temptations and distractions and prepares them for living the kind of life which, according to Christian ethical theory, they ought to live. On the plane of the body, sex is evil when it takes the form of a physical addiction. Sex as a means for satisfying social vanity is only less evil than sex as a means for satisfying the lust for power. Sex is not always addiction, is not always used as an instrument of domination or as a means for expressing vanity and snobbishness.
