Pensées

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 Pense?s 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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Author: Blaise Pascal
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/01/1995
Series: Penguin Classics
Pages: 368
Weight: 0.6lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.08w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9780140446456
Language: English