First published in 1947, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full text of Pascal's Entretien avec M. de Saci sur Epictete et Montaigne in the original French. A short editorial introduction in English is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his thought."
First published in 1947, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains the full text of Pascal's Entretien avec M. de Saci sur Epi...
First published in 1923, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains a selection of Pascal's Lettres ecrites a un provincial. The first, fourth, fifth and thirteenth letters are presented in French, with some modernisation of spelling. A short English editorial introduction is also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his thought."
First published in 1923, as part of the Cambridge Plain Texts series, this volume contains a selection of Pascal's Lettres ecrites a un provincial. Th...
The Pensees (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 Pensees was in many ways his life's work. The concept (but not the term) "Pascal's Wager" stems from a portion of this work. The Pensees is in fact a name given posthumously to his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology for the Christian Religion and which was never completed. Although the Pensees appears to consist of ideas and jottings, some of...
The Pensees (literally, "thoughts") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathem...
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 Pensees is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, 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. For more...
Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for t...
For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pensees, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. Pascal's general intention was to confound scepticism about metaphysical questions. Some of the Pensees are fully developed literary reflections on the human condition, some contradict others, and some remain jottings whose meaning will...
For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a ...
Blaise Pascal: Gedanken uber die Religion Als Blaise Pascal stirbt hinterlasst er rund 1000 ungeordnete Zettel, die er in den letzten Jahren vor seinem fruhen Tode als Skizze fur ein grosses Werk zur Verteidigung des christlichen Glaubens angelegt hatte. In akribischer Feinarbeit wurde aus den nachgelassenen Fragmenten 1670 die sogenannte Port-Royal-Ausgabe, die 1710 erstmalig ins Deutsche ubersetzt wurde. Diese Ausgabe folgt der Ubersetzung von Karl Adolf Blech von 1840. Entstanden etwa zwischen 1656 und Pascals Tod 1662. Erstdruck nach den vollig ungeordneten Fragmenten des Nachlasses:...
Blaise Pascal: Gedanken uber die Religion Als Blaise Pascal stirbt hinterlasst er rund 1000 ungeordnete Zettel, die er in den letzten Jahren vor seine...