Pensees
Blaise Pascal
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Add to basketBrand New, never read Hardback - as shown, Limited Edition from The Franklin Mint 100 greatest books Library
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with an introduction by T.S Eliot
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Limited Special Edition
Publisher: The Franklin Library - 100 Greatest Books of all Time
Published: 1979
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275 pages
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A collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays from a gifted French philosopher
A precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, Blaise Pascal was a skilled mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and?above all?theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace.
This translation conveys Pascal's disarmingly personal tone and captures all the fire and passion of the original. Also contained in this volume are a comparison between different editions, appendices and a bibliography.
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Blaise Pascal's famous Pensées (Thoughts) is, in reality, a collection of notes he made for a book he never wrote. Many of the thoughts are fragmentary in nature, and the sectionalizing and numbering was devised by a later editor. Yet they contain the key ideas of his religious philosophy, including his famous wager, as well as many other insights and ideas such as his celebrated comment on Cleopatra's nose.
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