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Pascal’s Pensees
by Blaise Pascal
Pascal’s Pensées is a masterpiece, and a landmark in French literature. This is Pascal’s most influential theological work—in it he surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing; faith and reason; soul and matter; death and life; meaning and vanity—seemingly arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility...
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Pascal’s Pensees
by Blaise Pascal
Pascal’s Pensées is a masterpiece, and a landmark in French literature. This is Pascal’s most influential theological work—in it he surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing; faith and reason; soul and matter; death and life; meaning and vanity—seemingly arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility...
Categories: All Politics, History and Current Events; All Religion & Spirituality
Pensées
by Blaise Pascal
The Pensées is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal’s religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism and this was in many ways his life’s work.
Blaise Pascal is both a philosopher, a religious thinker and a mathematician. Pascal is considered the forerunner of existentialist philosophy, developed later by Kierkegaard, Heidegger and Sartre.Before his death in 1662, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal, who was also a dedicated Christian, had planned to write a philosophical and...
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Pensees (Penguin Classics)
by Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human...
- Included with Biographical Introduction by T. S. Eliot and Pascal's Quotes. - With active links index. The Pensées (literally "thoughts") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism and the...
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Human Happiness (Penguin Great Ideas)
by Blaise Pascal
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life – or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have...
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Pensées (Dover Philosophical Classics)
by Blaise Pascal
"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true," declared Pascal in his Penseés. "The cure for this," he explained, "is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true, and then show that it is." Motivated by the...
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