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Coleman, Francis X. J.

 
9780710206930: Neither Angel Nor Beast: Life and Work of Blaise Pascal
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ISBN 10 : 0710206933 ISBN 13 : 9780710206930
Editeur : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books, 1986

Synopsis

Physical description; xiii, 227 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 23 cm. Subject; Pascal, Blaise 1623-1662.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Blaise Pascal began as a mathematical prodigy, developed into a physicist and inventor, and had become by the end of his life in 1662 a profound religious thinker. As a philosopher, he was most convinced by the long tradition of scepticism, and so refused – like Kierkegaard – to build a philosophical or theological system. Instead, he argued that the human heart required other forms of discourse to come to terms with the basic existential questions – our nature, purpose and relationship with God.

This introduction to the life and philosophical thought of Pascal is intended for the general reader. Strikingly illustrated, it traces the antithetical tensions in Pascal’s life from his infancy, when he was said to have been placed under the spell of a sorceress, to his final years of extreme asceticism. Pascal stressed both the misery and greatness of humanity, our finitude and our comprehension of the infinite. The book shows how his life, philosophical thought and literary style can best be understood in the light of the paradoxical view of human nature. It covers the methods of argument and the central issues of the Provincial Letters and of the Pensées; the Introduction places Pascal’s thought in the religious and political climate of seventeenth-century France, and a ‘Chronology of the Life of Pascal’ is also included.

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Éditeur
Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Date d'édition
1986
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0710206933
ISBN 13 
9780710206930
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
224
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