One of the most renowned pages of Pascal's Pensées offers an astonishing phenomenology of the all-powerful action of imagination in human life. This article retraces the genesis of this text and reassesses the sources of Pascal's conception of imagination. It argues that Pascal builds up his definition of the imagination as an ‘anti-theodicy’ which carefully recalls and then criticizes the Cartesian ‘theodicy of error’ and the foundation of the ‘general rule’ of truth proposed by the Fourth Meditation. In doing so, Pascal undermines the major aim of Descartes's Meditations, which is to secure human nature against any doubt as to its intrinsic perfection. Where, according to Descartes, human knowledge is finite yet perfectly secured in its accomplishments when we use the faculties of our mind correctly, Pascal describes imagination as a deceptive faculty that seems to have been given to us specifically to lead us into necessary error.

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必要的错误：帕斯卡的想象力和笛卡尔的第四次沉思

帕斯卡（Pascal）的Pensées（佩斯利）最着名的页面之一，是人类生活中无所不能的想象力行为的惊人现象。本文回顾了本文的起源，并重新评估了帕斯卡的想象力概念的来源。它认为，帕斯卡将他对想象力的定义建立为“反神学”，他仔细地回忆并批评了笛卡尔的“错误神学”和第四禅修提出的真理的“一般规则”。这样做，帕斯卡（Pascal）破坏了笛卡尔冥想的主要目的，即确保人性不受其内在完美的任何怀疑。根据笛卡尔（Descartes）的观点，当我们正确地运用我们的思维能力时，人类的知识是有限的，但是在其成就中得到了完美的保证，