Pensées / Pascal ; translated [from the French] with an introduction by A.J. Krailsheimer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662, author.

Series:

Penguin classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--Apologetic works.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church--Doctrinal and controversial works--Catholic authors.

Apologetics--Early works to 1800.

Apologetics.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Apologetics--17th century.

Catholic church--Doctrinal and controversial works--Catholic authors.

Local Subjects:

Catholic Church--Apologetic works.

Catholic Church--Doctrines.

Catholic Church--Doctrinal and controversial works--Catholic authors.

Apologetics--Early works to 1800.

Apologetics--17th century.

Catholic church--Doctrinal and controversial works--Catholic authors.

Genre:

Early works.

Apologetic writings.

Physical Description:

359 pages ; 18 cm.

Place of Publication:

Harmondsworth : Penguin Books, [1966]

Summary:

These are the notes which the great French mathematician and physicist jotted down in preparation for a reasoned defence of Christian belief. Their crude form brings home Pascal's insight into religious truths and the nature of human life with peculiar and haunting force.

Contents:

[Pt.] 1. Papers classified by Pascal (Pascal's titles). Order ; Vanity ; Wretchedness ; Boredom ; Causes and effects ; Greatness ; Contradictions ; Diversion ; Philosophers ; The sovereign good ; At Port Royal ; Beginning ; Submission and use of reason ; Excellence of this means of proving God ; Transition from knowledge of man to knowledge of God ; Nature is corrupt ; Falseness of other religions ; Make religion attractive ; Foundations ; Figurative law ; Rabbinism ; Perpetuity ; Proofs of Moses ; Proofs of Jesus Christ ; Prophecies ; Particular figures ; Christian morality ; Conclusion

[Pt.] 2. Papers not classified by Pascal (translator's titles). Various ; The wager ; Against indifference ; Eternal judgment. Christ ; Two essential truths of Christianity ; Advantages of Jewish people ; Sincerity of Jewish people ; True Jews and true Christians have same religion ; Particularity of Jewish people ; Perpetuity of Jewish people ; Proofs of religion ; Prophecies ; Particular prophecies ; Daniel ; Isaiah and Jeremiah : Latin texts ; Prophecies ; Prophecies ; Prophecies : the Jews and Christ ; Figurative meanings ; Belief. Classical quotations ; Two types of mind ; Mathematical and intuitive mind ; Various ; Various ; Human nature. Style. Jesuits etc. ; Sources of error ; Diversion. Draft prefaces ; Superiority of Christianity. Human behaviour ; Relativity of human values. The Bible and its truth ; Habit and conversion ; Figurative language in Bible. Human relations

[Pt.] 3. Miracles. Opinion of Saint-Cyran ; Rules for miracles ; Miracles for Port Royal against Jesuits

[Pt.] 4. Fragments not found in the copy. The memorial ; Fragments in the Recueil original ; The mystery of Jesus ; Fragments from other sources ; Sself-love ; Sayings attributed to Pascal ; Additional Pensées.

Other Format:

Online version: Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662. Pensées.

ISBN:

0140441719

9780140441710

OCLC:

6318501

Publisher Number:

B6817237