Pascal

Author : Douglas Groothuis
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Pascal written by Douglas Groothuis and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON PASCAL, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. These titles have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students' engagements with these philosopher's often conceptually daunting works, these titles have also gained extraordinary popularity with a lay readership and quite often serve as "refreshers" for philosophy instructors.

Author : Graeme Hunter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667001
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pascal the Philosopher written by Graeme Hunter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal has always been appreciated as a literary giant and a religious guide, but has received only grudging recognition as a philosopher: philosophers have mistaken Pascal’s harsh criticism of their discipline as a rejection of it. But according to Graeme Hunter, Pascal’s critics have simply failed to grasp his lean, but powerful conception of philosophy. This accessibly written book provides the first introduction to Pascal’s philosophy as an organic whole. Hunter argues that Pascal’s aim is not merely to humble philosophy, but to save it from a kind of failure to which it is prone. He lays out Pascal’s development of a more promising and fruitful path for philosophical inquiry, one that responded to the scientific, religious, and political upheaval of his time. Finally, Hunter illuminates Pascal’s significance for contemporary readers, allowing him to emerge as the rare philosopher who is spiritual, literary, and rigorous all at once – both a brilliant controversialist and a thinker of substance.

Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140446451
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pens閑s written by Blaise Pascal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986771336
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pensées written by Blaise Pascal and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pensées Blaise Pascal - From the notes for Pascal's contemplated "Apology for the Christian Religion" the Port-Royalists compiled and edited the book known as his "Pensées" or "Thoughts." The early texts were much tampered with, and the material has been frequently rearranged; but now at last it is possible to read these fragmentary jottings as they came from the hand of their author. In spite of their incompleteness and frequent incoherence, the "Thoughts" have long held a high place among the great religious classics. Much of the theological argument implied in these utterances has little appeal to the modern mind, but the acuteness of the observation of human life, the subtlety of the reasoning, the combination of precision and fervid imagination in the expression, make this a book to which the discerning mind can return again and again for insight and inspiration.

Author : John F. Boitano
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823355519
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Polemics of Libertine Conversion in Pascal's Pensées written by John F. Boitano and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pascal written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen C. Bold
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600001557
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pascal Geometer written by Stephen C. Bold and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Per Brinch Hansen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers written by Per Brinch Hansen and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1985 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Louis A. MacKenzie
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780917786631
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pascal's Lettres Provinciales written by Louis A. MacKenzie and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Rota
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830899995
Total Pages : 254 pages
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Download or read book Taking Pascal's Wager written by Michael Rota and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WORLD Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 Short List Christianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Apologetics/Evangelism Since we can't know with absolute certainty that God exists, each of us in a sense makes a bet. If we believe in God and are right, the benefits include eternal life. If we are wrong, the downside is limited. On the other hand, we might not believe in God. If we are right, then we will have lived in line with reality. If we are wrong, however, the consequences could be eternally disastrous. This was the challenge posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal over three hundred years ago. But Michael Rota contends that Pascal's argument is still compelling today. Since there is much to gain (for ourselves as well as for others) and relatively little to lose, the wise decision is to seek a relationship with God and live a Christian life. Rota considers Pascal's wager and the roles of uncertainty, evidence and faith in making a commitment to God. By engaging with themes such as decision theory, the fine-tuning of the universe, divine hiddenness, the problem of evil, the historicity of the resurrection and the nature of miracles, he probes the many dynamics at work in embracing the Christian faith. In addition, Rota takes a turn not found in many books of philosophy. He looks at the actual effects of such a commitment in three recent, vivid, gripping examples—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jean Vanier and Immaculée Ilibagiza. Like Pascal, Rota leaves us with a question: What wager will we make?