Pascals religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the pensees was in many ways his lifes work. Observations disparates dun protestant sur les pensees. Table of contents for pascal s pensees, a digital book in the international school of theologys cyber library which is a digital library for graduate seminary research, personal, and ministry research. The project gutenberg ebook of pascals pensees, by blaise. Jan 04, 2014 pascals pensees is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in french prose.
Particularly of interest to pascal was a work of desargues on conic sections. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Blaise pascal pensees read by peter wickham unabridged. It seems just possible that in the latter edition, and also in his biographical study pascal. The thoughts and ideas for his book were collected and complied, posthumously, and then published as the pensees. The pensees represented pascals defense of the christian religion. The facts of pascals life, so far as they are necessary for this brief introduction to the pensees, are as follows. Following desargues thinking, the 16yearold pascal produced, as a means of proof, a short treatise on what was called the mystic hexagram, essai pour les coniques essay on conics and sent ithis first serious work of mathematicsto pere mersenne in paris. Blaise pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of descartes, was a. The difference between the mathematical and the intuitive mind. After the death of french scientistpolemicist blaise pascal 16231662, his friends discovered among his papers a variety of jottings on religion. Les pensees 1670 toute histoire qui nest pas contemporaine est suspecte.
Originally intending to publish a book defending christianity, pascal died before he could complete it. This document has been generated from xsl extensible stylesheet language source with renderx xep formatter, version 3. Intended to be a defence of the christian religion, pensees is a penetrating collection of thoughts on faith, reason and theology. Table of contents for pascals pensees, a digital book in the international school of theologys cyber library which is a digital library for graduate seminary research, personal, and ministry research. The pensees is simply the compelling thoughts of mathematician, physicist, and religious thinker blaise pascal. Comme ils ont vu cela ils ont pris le divertissement.
Pensees which means thoughts is more a series of notes than an actual book. Pensees by blaise pascal, free pdf, ebook global grey. The pensees thoughts is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17thcentury philosopher and mathematician blaise pascal. Apr 27, 2006 free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Blaise pascal, 202 citations et pensees, ses plus belles phrases. Samizdat, october 2016 let us suppose that such a person began by observing those christian activi. Dans notre introduction, les references marquees l. The pensees literally thoughts is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17thcentury philosopher and mathematician blaise pascal. Ledition moderne retablit lordre original voulu par lauteur. Pascal s religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism and this was in many ways his lifes work. These they arranged and published as pensees thoughts, which has come down to us as the liveliest, most eloquent apology of christianity ever written. Pascals religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism and this was in many ways his lifes work.
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