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: 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...