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Abstract This article proposes a new approach to the Pensées of Blaise Pascal by focusing on the notion of failure. It shows how failure lies at the core of Pascal's apologetic project in the Pensées and suggests that Pascal urges the reader to confront and reinterpret his own inevitable failure. The article identifies two models of secular failure in the Pensées, arguing for their importance for readers of Pascal today, and especially for answering the thorny question of what it would mean for a secular reader to take Pascal seriously when he speaks of 'la misère de l'homme sans Dieu'.
本文从失败的概念出发，对帕斯卡的penssames进行了新的分析。它显示了失败是帕斯卡尔在《彭萨梅斯》中道歉计划的核心，并暗示帕斯卡尔敦促读者面对并重新解释他自己不可避免的失败。这篇文章指出了penssames中两种世俗失败的模式，论证了它们对今天帕斯卡读者的重要性，尤其是回答了一个棘手的问题，即当帕斯卡说到“la mis del 'homme sans Dieu”时，对于一个世俗读者来说，认真对待帕斯卡意味着什么。
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