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| Original Title: | Pensées |
| ISBN: | 0140446451 |
| Edition Language: | English |
Blaise Pascal
Paperback | Pages: 334 pages Rating: 3.96 | 10726 Users | 386 Reviews
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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.
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| Title | : | Pensées |
| Author | : | Blaise Pascal |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 334 pages |
| Published | : | July 27th 1995 by Penguin Classics (first published 1670) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Classics. Nonfiction. Religion. Theology. Cultural. France. Christian |
Rating Containing Books Pensées
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I think, at least in the first half of this, there are some very worthwhile things. I think the idea that is central to a lot of the start of this isThere are multiple levels to this book. It works best when he's sharing his wisdom by using aphorisms (short pithy and usually wise statements ). They're so many pearls within this book that it wouldn't be worthwhile to highlight with a highlighter because you would highlight over half of the book. Pascal really has a great way of looking at the world and giving a smart sounding soundbite.Matter of fact, I would say this is one of the best self help books I've ever came across. He clearly also
Fouiller dans les papiers d'un mort et publier ses réflexions misanthropes et pessimistes. Le contenu est éreintant.
Only read the first half because the second one is unreadable unless you're a religious fanatic. There's something so utterly charming in Pascal's saying, while trying to prove God's existence:222 / Atheists. "Why cannot a virgin bear a child? Does a hen not lay eggs without a cock?"That's it. That's exactly it. Women are just like hens.
Blaise Pascal only cared about pleasure and friends and living a life of happiness... until late one night on November 23, 1654. Pascal was out late that night with his buddies when he had a near death experience. A runnaway cart nearly crushed the young men. Pascal fainted on the street and had a vision. When Blaise had regained consiousness he immeadiately wrote a note to himself, which he never told anyone about. Pascal dthen dedicated his life to God. After his death the note was found by
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18269/...Perhaps half of this was basically wasted on me. As an atheist, books providing proofs for the existence of God are perhaps 40 years or so too late. The problem here isnt so much that he is trying to prove the existence of an entity that he himself admits particularly likes to hide presumably you can see the problem here but also that some of his proofs seemed utterly bizarre to me. One of my favourites was him saying that the Old Testament was the
Trevor wrote: "I think the idea that is central to a lot of the start of this is that we are deeply embodied creatures, that we are not nearly as
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