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| Title | : | Pensées |
| Author | : | Blaise Pascal |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 334 pages |
| Published | : | July 27th 1995 by Penguin Classics (first published 1670) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Classics. Nonfiction. Religion. Theology. Cultural. France. Christian |
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.Present Books Supposing Pensées
| Original Title: | Pensées |
| ISBN: | 0140446451 |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Religious Thoughts of a Mathematician29 August 2016 - Paris, France When I was learning French I was rather thrown by the way their numbers work after about 60, as is demonstrated by this picture, which shows how English, German, and French construct the number 98: My first thought was 'this is absolutely ridiculous, how on Earth could the French have produced any mathematicians? Well, it turns out that they produced at least two Rene Descartes (notable for Cartesian Geometry) and Blaise PascalPascal has caused atheists to doubt their atheism more often than Nietzsche has theists their theism - why? Because those that let their hearts guide their thoughts are never in doubt, but those who unwisely look to results to guide them, as macho ubermensches perforce exclusively must, are always finding their conviction to be as slippery as the passing moment (no one result ever convinces the result-minded). Recognizing this, Pascal places a weighty emphasis on the heart and the nature of its
Ces distances infinites des espace m'effraie. (I quote from (bad) memory. Corrected:"Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m'effraie." Even better, since I'm a musician, wrote a book on bird vocalization, Birdtalk, where the European Blackbirds, the Orioles, Robins, the Titmouses and Chickadees (a form of Titmouse, which Emerson's poem of that name admires). I spoke on it 80 times, including once in Milano in Italian, a couple times in the UK. Later I wrote two books on space-man Giordano
دوستانِ گرانقدر در این چرت و پرت نامه که نامِ آن را کتاب نهاده اند و آن را با عنوانِ "تفکرات" میشناسیم <پاسکال> به عالم و آدم تاخته است و تنها مسیح و مسیحیت و کاتولیک را خوب و نیک میداندپاسکال تصور کرده که تمامیِ انسانها همچون خودش بیشعور و بیخرد هستندتعصب به مسیحیت چشمِ خردِ پاسکال را کور کرده و استعدادی را که او در ریاضیات داشته است را نابود کرده است... برخی از دینداران او را با عنوانِ فیلسوف میشناسند. امّا این به نوعی بی احترامی به فلاسفهٔ اندیشمند و خردگرا در طولِ تاریخ میباشد...
"They say the Church says what it does not say and that it does not say what it does.""Four kinds of person: zeal without knowledge, knowledge without zeal, neither knowledge nor zeal, both zeal and knowledge."Pascal exudes a certain thorough logic, recalling his wager. My only wish is that this book contained more of it.
Imagine keeping a journal of your private thoughts, opinions, and deep philosophical and theological musings --- collected snippets and notes never intended for publication in any way --- and then having them appear in book form for three and a half centuries after your death. That, basically, is how the Pensees ("thoughts expressed in literary form") of Blaise Pascal came to exist. This was a fascinating read, filled with many short, sometimes cryptic aphorisms, a good number of which -- but
Wow- I read the edited version, which the Levis got down to about 180, plus a few other essays which were reasonably helpful. Having done this, I'm pretty happy saying that someone should really do a 90 page version, which would give you much of the important material, without any of the random notes. When people read, say, Heidegger or Dostoevsky, they don't feel obliged to read the notes they made on the back of restaurant menus along the lines of "look up Kierkegaard on the color green" or
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