@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00020513,
 author = {村瀬, 勉 and 田中, 萬年 and MURASE, Tsutomu and TANAKA, Kazutoshi},
 journal = {職業能力開発研究},
 month = {Feb},
 note = {How do we choose our calling?" is a very difficult question to answer. Pascal, in his Pensées, used words such as "calling," occupation, labor, work, etc. More-over, in his same work (B97), he wrote about the choice of a calling: "The most important affair in life is the choice of a calling; chance decides it." This answer seems strange because Pascal was an heir of the Augustinian philoso-phy. Pascal quoted "God's grace" by Augustine in his "Provincial X VIII": "Our action are ours in respect of the free will which produces them; but that they are also of God, in respect of His grace which enables our free will to produce them." (tr. by Thomas M'Crie) Pascal should have written, therefore, "God's grace decides it." Why did Pascal write "chance decides it"? What did "chance" mean to Pascal? When his father was appointed a tax collector for Normandy, young Pascal inventeda calculator to help his father with his work collecting taxes, and six years later he offered experimental confirmation of Torricelli's work on the barometer. He learned through these experiences that his work would never have succeeded without workers' cooperation, and recognized that all people were equal in their existence, unrelated to their callings. Therefore, our choice of a calling, what-ever the reasons of the choice may be, is limited by "chance," and is not a matter of necessity. Trotter translated "métier" in French to "calling" in English. In this case "calling" means "person's customary vocation or profession."},
 pages = {147--182},
 title = {職業の選択 : パスカルの「パンセ」において},
 volume = {22},
 year = {2004}
}