| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study examined the art of persuasion of Pascal, known as a mathematician, physicist, and christian philosopher representing 17th century of France, from the three perspectives (style, rhetoric, and logical structure), with the aim of elucidating its characteristics. In the first year, I (we) carefully scrutinized two of Pascal's best-known works, The "Provincial Letters" (1656-57) and The "Thoughts" (1662), to analyze the similarities and differences in their styles of argumentation, and in the final year, I (we) attempted to compare Pascal's style of argumentation with that of Montaigne, a philosopher of the previous era, and with that of Bossuet, a contemporary apologist, and derived some of characteristics of Pascal's art of persuasion (e. g., meta-ness). The results were reported at domestic/international conferences and at research meetings, and some of them were summarized in papers.
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