Book
Pensees
- Published
- 1670
- Genre
- Classics
- Pages
- 334
- Words
- 171432
- URL
- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/449407.Pens_es?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_7
Reading measures
- Suggested reading age
- ages 17–18
- Ambleside year
- Year 12 onwards · ages 17–20
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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.
Collections
St. John's College · 3
ISBN
- ISBN-13
- 9781788283090
- ISBN-10
- 1788283090
Tags
EssaysReligionReligion-ChristianityScience-PhilosophySt. John's CollegeTheology