Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall

Blaise Pascal''s account of the cognitive consequences of the Fall is clearly set out by William Wood in the first book on Pascal''s theology to appear in English in more than forty years. Wood''s central claim is that for Pascal, the Fall is a fall into duplicity. Pascal holds that as fallen selves in a fallen world, human beings have an innate aversion to the truth that is also, at the same time...