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Wiseblood Classics Edition of Pascal's Pensées

11/20/2013

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Author: Blaise Pascal
Title:
Pensées
Translated by: W.F. Trotter
Introduction by: T.S. Eliot
Wiseblood Price: $9.00
(before shipping)
Book Dimensions: 5x8
ISBN Numbers:
ISBN-13: 978-0615924502
ISBN-10: 0615924506


" 'The heart has reasons which the mind does not understand.' How often one has heard that quoted, and quoted often to the wrong purpose! For this is by no means an exaltation of the 'heart' over the 'head,' a defence of unreason. The heart, in Pascal's terminology, is itself truly rational if it is truly the heart. For him, in theological matters, which seemed to him much larger, more difficult, and more important than scientific matters, the whole personality is involved."
—From the Introduction by T.S. Eliot

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) left his Pensées incomplete at his death, but the meanings these "thoughts" contain continue to be resurrected. Herein he sets forth a defense of the Christian faith that directly incorporates skepticism and stoicism, that confronts infinity and nothingness, intuition and analysis, being and death, boredom and despair. Amidst all of these thoroughly modern problems lies Pascal's infamous wager: to have faith in God's existence or not.

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