@ARTICLE{Krasińska_Magdalena_L’Esprit_2023,
 author={Krasińska, Magdalena},
 number={No 4},
 pages={185-210},
 journal={Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Komitet Nauk Filozoficznych PAN},
 publisher={Wydział Filozofii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego},
 abstract={The aim of this article is to analyze the category of l’esprit de finesse, which in Les Pensées is contrasted with the category of l’esprit de géométrie. The two types of mind distinguished by Pascal are: the intuitive mind, associated with concepts such as finnesse, délicatesse, justesse or sentiment, and the mathematical mind, following the Cartesian method of arguing more geometrico. In the course of this analysis I focus on translation and different ways of distinguishing between both Pascalian types of mind in the Polish, English and German editions. This analysis leads to the conclusion that the description accompanying the presentation of the l’esprit de finesse emphasizes the aesthetic character of the intuitive mind. To support this thesis, I refer to some representatives of the early aesthetics of the 17th and 18th centuries: Nicolas Boileau- -Despréaux, Dominique Bouhours, Lord Shaftesbury, Alexander Baumgarten. At the end of the article the aesthetic nature of l’esprit de finesse is confirmed by referring to the concept of Wolfgang Welsch’s ‘aesthetic thinking’.},
 title={L’Esprit de finesse or Pascalian Patronage over Aesthetics},
 type={Artykuł},
 URL={http://czasopisma.pan.pl/Content/134634/PFIL-13.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/pfns.2023.148655},
 keywords={aesthetic thinking, aesthetics, finesse, intuition, intuitive mind, mathematical mind, mos geometricus},
}