This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest to the version Pascal left behind on his death in 1662. A brief history of the text, a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a chronology of Pascal s life and works, concordances between the Sellier and Lafuma editions of the original, and an index are provided."
This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript,...
Pascal's Pensees 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.
Pascal's Pensees is a masterpiece, and a landmark in French literature. This is Pascal's most influential theological work in it he surveys several ph...
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...
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life - or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great...
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at wh...
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...
