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Montaigne and Pascal—Evil and the Self

Philosophers Montaigne and Pascal offered sharply contrasting, “interior” accounts of sin. Evaluate Montaigne's view of zealous extremism as rooted in pathologic denial of the “disorderliness” of human nature, against Pascal's contention that that very nature requires spiritual zealotry to counteract and heal it.

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