« L'art de persuader et les règles de la méthode chez Pascal »

BELLON, T. "L'art de persuader et les règles de la méthode chez Pascal", Journal of Early Modern Studies, vol. 13, issue 1 (Spring 2024), pp. 43-69. 

Abstract: In this study, we attempt to show how the "art of persuasion" delivers a new conception of method, one that makes it possible to resolve the practical problems imposed by grounding truth in evidence alone. In this way, we show that the different determinations of the art of persuasion that run through the eponymous text, describe the various modalities of a single doctrine of persuasion that substitutes the precept of evidence – without denying it – for the need to define and demonstrate principles.

Keywords: art of persuasion; method; rules; certainty; common fundament; Blaise Pascal.