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1	 Vincenzo Ferrone, The Enlightenment: History of an Idea, trans. Elisabetta Tarantino
(Princeton University Press, 2015), 14.
2	 Ibid., 26.
3	 John C. McCarthy, "Pascal on Certainty and Utility," in Modern Enlightenment and the
Rule of Reason, ed. John C. McCarthy (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America
Press, 1998), 98.
4	 References to the Pensées are to Blaise Pascal, Pensées, ed. Louis Lafuma, trans. A. J.
Krailsheimer (London: Penguin Books, 1966), and to Pensées et opuscules, ed. Léon
Brunschvicg, rev. ed. (Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1946). The first number within parentheses refers to the Lafuma edition; the second number (in square brackets) refers to the
Brunschvicg edition.
5	 Leszek Kołakowski, God Owes Us Nothing: A Brief Remark on Pascal's Religion and on the
Spirit of Jansenism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 182.
6	 T. S. Eliot, "The Pensées of Pascal," in Selected Essays (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1932),
360.
7	 Josef Pieper, Tradition: Concept and Claim, trans. E. Christian Kopff (Wilmington, DE: ISI
Books, 2008), 35.
8	 Ibid., 33.
9	 Yves Congar, OP, The Meaning of Tradition, trans. A. N. Woodrow (San Francisco: Ignatius
Press, 2004), 10.
10	 Ibid., 69.
11	 Ibid., 13, 104, 135.
12	Pieper, Tradition, 43.
13	 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, II.2, Q. 1, Art. 5. See James R. Peters, The Logic of
the Heart: Augustine, Pascal, and the Rationality of Faith (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2009), 190. Pascal's Wager is meant not to prove the existence of God but to
break down barriers to faith.
14	Peters, The Logic of the Heart, 18.
15	 Ibid., 16.
16	 Erich Auerbach, "On the Political Theory of Pascal," in Scenes from the Drama of European Literature: Six Essays (New York: Meridian Books, 1959), 127.
17	 Ibid., 127.
18	 Paul Benichou, Man and Ethics: Studies in French Classicism (New York: Doubleday, 1971),
135.
19	Pieper, Tradition, 68.
20	 Francis Slade, "Was Ist Aufklärung? Notes on Maritain, Rorty, and Bloom with Thanks
but No Apologies to Immanuel Kant," in The Common Things: Essays on Thomism and
Education, ed. Daniel McInerny (American Maritain Association, 1999), 52.
21	 Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England 1400-1580 (New
Haven and London: Yale University Press 1992), 265.
22	 Ibid., 298.
23	 Rémi Brague, Eccentric Culture: A Theory of Western Civilization, trans. Samuel Lester
(South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2002), 162. Further citations to this book will be
given parenthetically in the text.
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