✨ Featured Offer
Brand New
$19.89
List Price: $17.99
🚚
See all 2 offers from $19.89 FREE standard delivery by: 29 Mar 2026
Overview
The Pens es (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 Pens es 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 Pens es 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 Pens es appears to consist of ideas and jottings, some of which are incomplete, it is believed that Pascal had, prior to his death in 1662, already planned out the order of the book and had begun the task of cutting and pasting his draft notes into a coherent form. His task incomplete, subsequent editors have disagreed on the order, if any, in which his writings should be read. Those responsible for his effects, failing to recognize the basic structure of the work, handed them over to be edited, and they were published in 1669. The first English translation was made in 1688 by John Walker.
| ISBN-13 | 9781783362387 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10 | 1783362383 |
| Weight | 1.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.00 x 1.13 x 9.00 In |
| List Price | $17.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Pages | 498 pages |
| Publisher | limovia.net |
| Published On | 2013-05-01 |
View All Offers
Sort by:
Price
Condition
Seller
Seller Comments
Price
✨ Brand New
Seller details
Alibris
Sparks, NV, USA
Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 498 p.
Free delivery by: 29 Mar 2026
Used, Good
Seller details
Bonita
Santa Clarita, CA, USA
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Free delivery by: 29 Mar 2026