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Pascal's Pensées (Annotated)
Blaise Pascal
ASIN: B00HNWQJCG
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 198

- Included with Biographical Introduction by T. S. Eliot and Pascal's Quotes.- With active links index.The Pensées (literally "thoughts") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. The concept, but not the term, "Pascal's Wager" stems from a portion of this work. The Pensées is in fact a name given posthumously to his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology for the Christian Religion which was never completed.Although the Pensées appears to consist of ideas and jottings, some of which are incomplete, it is believed that Pascal had, prior to his death in 1662, already planned out the order of the book and had begun the task of cutting and pasting his draft notes into a coherent form. ...
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4 stars from 19 ratings