Pascal and the Arts of the Mind - Couverture rigide

Davidson, Hugh M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521331935 ISBN 13 : 9780521331937

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

This 1993 book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

This 1993 book studies the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in three very different areas of his work: mathematics and mathematical physics, religious experience and theology, communication and controversy. Hugh Davidson shows how three of the classical 'liberal arts', rhetoric, dialectic and geometry, pervade Pascal's method as liberating and guiding influences in his search for truth. They appear throughout his production and are used and adapted with great skill both in his attacks on tradition in mathematics and physics and in his defences of tradition in the sphere of religion and morality. Professor Davidson throws light on both the diversity and the unity of Pascal's thought, and places it in the context of other seventeenth-century innovations in the use of traditional disciplines.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521331935
• ISBN 13: 9780521331937
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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