News archive for the 'French Political History' group

French Political History

Meetings scheduled for Tuesday June 12 and June 26 at 3.30 p.m. at St. Peter’s Church, Moorhey Road.  Naturally recent significant political changes in France will influence what we discuss.   We will look at the framework of constitutional rules in the modern 5th Republic as opposed to those that applied in the earlier 3rd and 4th Republics.  It will be interesting to study the results of the general legislative elections scheduled for June following the election of François Hollande to the Presidency

 

 

French Political History -Blaise Pascal

14th & 28th February 2012

Blaise Pascal

These two sessions focus on the ideas and doctrines of the17th century philosopher Blaise Pascal, a significantly different figure from René Descartes whom we studied in detail last year. Members should revise what we learned about Descartes’ ideas first and try to find out something about what made Pascal so special before we start on February 14th.