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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Blaise Pascal; A J Krailsheimer |
| ISBN: | 0140446451 9780140446456 |
| OCLC Number: | 34283358 |
| Description: | xxxii, 333 p. ; 20 cm. |
| Contents: | Section one: Papers classified by Pascal (Pascal's titles) -- Order -- Vanity -- Wretchedness -- Boredom -- Causes and effects -- Greatness -- Contradictions -- Diversion -- Philosophers -- The sovereign good -- APR -- 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. Section two: 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 -- 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 -- Section three: Miracles -- Opinion of Saint-Cyran -- Rules for miracles -- Miracles for Port Royal against Jesuits -- Section four: Fragments not found in the first copy -- The memorial -- Fragmanets in the Recueil Original - The Mystery of Jesus -- Fragments from other sources - Self-love -- Sayings attributed to Pascal -- Additional Pensees. |
| Series Title: | Penguin classics |
| Other Titles: | Pensées. |
| Responsibility: | Pascal ; translated with an introduction by A.J. Krailsheimer. |
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