What it Means to be a Thinking Reed

As an idea Reed, the citation above cited from Pascal Pensées means what seems to be the reason for degradation. The reasons, the foundation of enlightenment, and the reasons traditionally believed to distinguish between the central characteristics of humans and beasts are considered here to be limited, and their powers are limited. Instead of making Descartes' hope "solid and immovable", it is impossible to perfectly understand the truth of the universe, not to reduce it rationally, but to understand all about it systematically. The power weakened.

A man is just a kind of reed, essentially the weakest reed, but he is a reed of thought. There is no need for the whole universe to arm itself to destroy him: enough steam, a drop of water to kill him. But if you want to crush his universe, he will become a noble family than the one who kills him because he knows his death and the superiority of his universe; he knows nothing about the universe Not (Pascal, 1966, p. 35). The meaning is seen as "the process of life ... the fundamental given thing of all experience" (Bugental, 1965, p. 27). As living animals, we are all involved in the existence of literature, but this does not mean that we are engaged in a figurative process of discovering our existence. Humans are metaphorically defined as exclusive experiences since they can understand the struggle of existence themselves.

Tanatos - Eros, existence: psychoanalysis - connection of existentialism Ryan D. Miller University of Nebraska Omaha

Pascal again depicted the human race in a paradoxical way: "Humans are mere reeds, they are inherently weakest, but he is a reed of thought." Reeds are tall grasses connected. Hollow stem This paradoxical metaphor shows a positive and negative attitude towards human nature. A positive attitude is that Pascal believes it has the special ability human beings think. This is the difference between humans and other forms of life. According to Pascal, we are weak and weak people. But because we have the ability to think, we are the most noble people. As our nobility, essence, and existence depends on our ability to think, Pascal's message says, "Let us think hard: This is the principle of morality." A negative attitude towards human nature Is a way of expressing people. By calling people "reeds", it reminds us how vulnerable and vulnerable humans are. For example, Pascal wrote: "Enough air, a drop of water to kill a human being."