Pascal's Pensees

Pascal, Blaise Blaise Pascal,

ISBN 10: 1617202940 / ISBN 13: 9781617202940

Published by Wilder Publications -, 2022

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Synopsis:

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, ignorance, and grace.

About the Author: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Christian writer, one of the most brilliant figures of seventeenth-century Europe. His scientific and mathematical work included important contributions to probability, geometry, fluid mechanics, and calculating machines, while his religious writings placed him among the major voices of Christian apologetics and French prose. After a profound religious conversion, Pascal became closely associated with the Jansenist spiritual world of Port-Royal and turned increasingly toward questions of grace, faith, human nature, and salvation.Pascal's Pensées was left unfinished at his death, but it became his most influential religious and philosophical work. Its fragments combine theological argument, psychological insight, literary force, and moral severity, giving readers one of the great accounts of the divided human condition: capable of reason and greatness, yet marked by distraction, pride, weakness, and dependence upon God. For readers of Christian classics, religious philosophy, Catholic thought, apologetics, and early modern French literature, Pascal remains indispensable.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Pascal's Pensees
Publisher: Wilder Publications -
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good