Pascals Apology For Religion
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Author | : Blaise Pascal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-03-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1107683874 |
Originally published in 1942, this book constitutes the companion volume to The Heart of Pascal (1945); both volumes were formed using selections from Pascal's Pensées. The text gathers together a series of selections, presented in French, which illustrate Pascal's Christian faith and thoughts on the relationship between man and God. An appendix and preface by the editor are also provided. This is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his late thought.
Author | : Blaise Pascal |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2023-11-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Pascal's Pensées or, Thoughts is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work.
Author | : Blaise Pascal |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1948 |
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Author | : Blaise Pascal |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 1995-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0140446451 |
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 Penseés 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 than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.
Author | : Blaise Pascal |
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Total Pages | : 231 |
Release | : 1942 |
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Author | : Michael Moriarty |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192588990 |
This book is a study of Blaise Pascal's defence of Christian belief in the Pensées. Michael Moriarty aims to expound—and in places to criticize—what he argues is a coherent and original apologetic strategy. Setting out the basic philosophical and theological presuppositions of Pascal's project, the present volume draws the distinction between convictions attained by reason and those inspired by God-given faith. It also presents Pascal's view of the contradictions within human nature, between the 'wretchedness' (our inability to live the life of reason, to attain secure and durable happiness) and the 'greatness' (the power of thought, manifested in the very awareness of our wretchedness). His mind-body dualism and his mechanistic conception of non-human animals are discussed. Pascal invokes the biblical story of the Fall and the doctrine of original sin as the only credible explanation of these contradictions. His analysis of human occupations as powered by the twin desire to escape from painful thoughts and to gratify one's vanity is subjected to critical examination, as is his conception of the self and self-love. Pascal argues that just as Christianity propounds the only explanation for the human condition, so it offers the only kind of happiness that would satisfy our deepest longings. He thus reasons that we have an interest in investigating its truth-claims as rooted in the Bible and in history. The closing chapters of this book discuss Pascal's view of Christian morality and the famous 'wager' argument for opting in favour of Christian belief.
Author | : David Wetsel |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813213286 |
Seeks to answer a question that has puzzled readers since the Pensees -- a work conceived principally as an Apology for the Christian Religion -- first appeared in 1670: To whom is Pascal's call to Christian conversion really addressed?
Author | : Blaise Pascal |
Publisher | : Dutton Books |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Intended to prove that religion is not contrary to reason, "Pensé es" ranks among the liveliest and most eloquent defenses of Christianity. Pascal had intended to write an ambitious apologia for Christianity but his untimely death prevented the work's completion. The fragments remain a vital part of religious and philosophical literature. Introduction by T. S. Eliot.
Author | : Blaise Pascal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1829 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
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Author | : Blaise Pascal |
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Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : Apologetics |
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