| Author: | Blaise Pascal | ISBN: | 9780141915647 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd | Publication: | May 29, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Penguin | Language: | English |
| Author: | Blaise Pascal |
| ISBN: | 9780141915647 |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Publication: | May 29, 2003 |
| Imprint: | Penguin |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
