We continue our tour of Blaise Pascal’s thoughts today where we left off: It is when a man embraces his ‘whole duty… to think as he ought’ (126) that he is faced with his inadequacies within himself. We must look outward, at something higher than ourselves “According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to […]
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“Man is obviously made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.” (146) Pascal explores the connection between purpose and thought. As christians we might be hesitant to agree with the mighty Pascal here. After all, isn’t the chief end of man
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As my children get older, I am often surprised to find that they are learning things that I don’t know. I shouldn’t be surprised, I am the one orchestrating their school year, gathering their curriculum, and planning out the lessons, but it still happens. While engaged in a healthy discussion with my eldest daughter, she
Your weekly problem for problem solving is a challenging word problem. Try your hand at it and test your mind: Two pilgrims stopped by the side of the road to eat. One had seven loaves of bread and the other had five loaves. A third traveler arrived before they had begun their meal and
As a homeschool mom we try to do it all, until… we can’t. As a Scio Academy Math Masters mom, you don’t have to do it all. In fact, that’s why we are here. However, you are still mom, which means that you still have a very important role to play. Let’s look at that
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