Pensées
by Blaise Pascal, A. J. Krailsheimer (Translator, Introduction by)
ISBN-10: 0140446451
ISBN-13: 9780140446456
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Book Specs
Binding
UK-B Format Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Published on
Dec 1, 1995
Edition
2nd Edition
Dimensions
7.82x5.08x0.87 Inches
Weight
0.59 Pounds
About the Book
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.