Pensees

BLAISE PASCAL, A. J. KRAILSHEIMER

ISBN 10: 0140446451 / ISBN 13: 9780140446456

Editore: Penguin USA December 1995, 1995

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Pascal makes everybody's list of history's all-time geniuses, and this work, a classic of apologetics, philosophy, and psychology, shows him at his best. His comments on such topics as boredom, the limits of reason, what kings do with their wealth, and the greatness and wretchedness of humanity are unforgettable, and timeless in their relevance. 359 pp. Codice articolo 4821

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Titolo: Pensees

Casa editrice: Penguin USA December 1995

Data di pubblicazione: 1995

Legatura: Paper Back

Condizione: New

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Riassunto:

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.

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Blaise Pascal (1623-62) left his mark on mathematics, physics, religious controversy and literature. A convert to Jansenism, he engaged in passionate debate with the Jesuits the results of which are the Lettres Provincales, on which, with Pensées, his fame now rests. He is regarded by many as the greatest of French prose stylists.
A J Krailsheimer was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford and translated widely from the French.