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The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 334 pages and is available in paperback format. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading pensees. In pensees, pascal surveys several philosophical paradoxes. This page contains details about the nonfiction book pensees by blaise pascal published in 1670. Trotter 1871 pascals pensees is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in french prose.
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This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw. Intended to be a defence of the christian religion, pensees is a penetrating collection of thoughts on faith, reason and theology. Pensees 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 first edition of the novel was published in 1669, and was written by blaise pascal. Blaise pascal has 348 books on goodreads with 36710 ratings. An unusually creative mathematician, he developed a number of theorems and mathematical structures, including the beginnings of probability theory and a more sophisticated understanding of the geometry of conic structures. Pensees ebook by blaise pascal 9781504033930 rakuten kobo. Blaise pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the chris.
G written by blaise pascal read by peter wickham format. The thoughts of blaise pascal online library of liberty liberty fund. Introduction concordance between the present edition and that of p. The seventeenthcentury philosopher and mathematicians influential treatise in support of religion.
Pascals religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the pensees was in many ways his lifes work. Pascals pensees by blaise pascal free ebook manybooks. Author bio french mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher blaise pascal 162362 laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Pascal could have been talking about himself when he wrote, meeting with a natural style we are amazed and delighted, for we looked to find an author and we find a man. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. The book takes the form of many small comments and analysis, a notebook written in shorthand if you will. Originally intending to publish a book defending christianity, pascal died before he could complete it. Pascals pensees by blaise pascal free ebook project gutenberg. Published by mobilereference mobi this book is best read in small doses or it becomes too much. The main characters of this philosophy, classics story are. Pensees ebook by blaise pascal 9780141915647 rakuten kobo.
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