Pensees (Penguin Classics)

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Description: 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 le ... (more)

Manufacturer: Penguin Classics
Release date: 1 December 1995
ISBN-10 : 0140446451 | ISBN-13: 9780140446456

Tags: Philosophy (2), Religion (1), French Philosphy (1)

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