Lessico e semantica della sussistenza in Pascal

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RIVISTA DI FILOSOFIA NEO-SCOLASTICA - 2024 - 1. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) Metafisica, Scienza, Teologia

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Lessico e semantica della sussistenza in Pascal

Lexicon and Semantics of Subsistence in Pascal

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Igor Agostini

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Vita e Pensiero

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09-2024

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10.26350/001050_000438

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0035-6247 (stampa) | 1827-7926 (digitale)

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The aim of my study is to conduct a semantic study of Pascal’s lexicon of subsistence by means of a search for occurrences of the lemmas subsister (in its various forms), subsistence and subsistent. The analysis that I develop here shows that the prevailing meaning of this lexicon into Pascal’s corpus is not metaphysical: «to subsist» indicates the permanence of something despite difficulties. The fragments of the Pensées on the prophecies also reveal that the source of this meaning is biblical; moreover, they allow us to identify a deeper historical-salvific meaning. For this reason, Pascal’s lexicon of subsistence would seem to reveal much more than a biblical origin: it seems to refer directly to the expression «God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob», which in fact refers to the permanence of the testamentum across generations and ordeals.