Why read Pascal?
"This brief but comprehensive introduction to French author Blaise Pascal provides an overview of his life and works and examines the major themes in his writings"--
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- Full title :Why read Pascal? / Paul J. Griffiths.
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"This brief but comprehensive introduction to French author Blaise Pascal provides an overview of his life and works and examines the major themes in his writings"--
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- Publication Date:2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):The Catholic University of America Press
- Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021
The Physical Object
- Description:xviii, 240 pages ; : 22 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780813233840, 0813233844
- oclc:on1229140775
- LC Classification:B1903
- Dewey Decimal:194
Table of Contents
1 Life and works -- 2 Style -- 2.1 Natural style -- 2.2 Style and the Order of Things -- 2.3 Polemic -- 2.4 Dialectic -- 2.5 Aphorism and irony -- 3 Order -- 3.1 Intellectual and political order -- 3.2 Orders of Being and orders of investigation -- 3.3 Three orders: body, mind, love -- 3.4 What reason can do -- 3.5 Disorder and the limits of order -- 4 Anthropology -- 4.1 Affliction -- 4.2 Diversion -- 4.3 Custom -- 4.4 Conversion -- 4.5 Wager -- 5 Grace -- 5.1 The five propositions -- 5.2 Pascal's language for grace -- 5.3 Keeping the commandments -- 5.4 Delectation and non-competition -- 5.5 Predestination -- 6 Politics -- 6.1 Secular cities -- 6.2 The Ecclesial City -- 7 Jews -- 7.1 Christians of the Old Law -- 7.2 Supersession -- 7.3 Rabbinage -- Epilogue -- Concordance to Pensees.
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