Philosophy
Pensées
Blaise Perier, T. S. Eliot, William Finlayson Trotter, Philippe Sellier, Blaise Pascal, Margival Henri, H. F. Stewart
1670·352 pages
Philosophical fragments examining human contradictions, wretchedness in an impersonal universe, and transformation through Christian faith and grace.
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Philosophical fragments examining human contradictions, wretchedness in an impersonal universe, and transformation through Christian faith and grace.
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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 Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an im...
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Central Christian apologetics exploring sin, grace, faith, and redemption
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Brief discussion of social and political dimensions of human nature
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Metaphysical examination of human desolation and suffering
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