Making Sense of it all: Pascal and the Meaning of Life - Softcover

Morris, Thomas V.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080280652X ISBN 13: 9780802806529

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1992

Synopsis

An instructive and entertaining book that addresses basic life questions. Relating numerous personal anecdotes, incorporating, intriguing material from the films of Woody Allen and the journals of Leo Tolstoy, and using the writings of the seventeenth-century genius Blaise Pascal as a central guide, Morris explores the nature of faith, reason, and the meaning of life. His lucid reflections provide fresh, fertile insights and perspectives for any thoughtful person journeying through life.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas V. Morris taught philosophy for fifteen years at the University of Notre Dame, where he received numerous awards for teaching excellence. He currently chairs the Morris Institute for Human Values in Wilmington, North Carolina. Morris is the author of more than thirty books, including Philosophy for Dummies.

From the Back Cover

'Pascal's Pensees--Thoughts--are notes that Pascal might have organized into a book if he had not died so early. Morris here gives us a book organized out of some of those thoughts...This is a Pascalian book filled with a passion for life and for finding the sense of life as it actually comes to us. In Pascal, and now in Morris, we can hear a philosophical voice that calls up our own deep longing and that invites us to an everlasting love.' - George I. Mavrodes, University of Michigan

Edition details

• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080280652X
• ISBN 13: 9780802806529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224