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On Pascal

Author : Douglas Groothuis
Publisher : Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book On Pascal written by Douglas Groothuis and published by Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON PASCAL, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. These titles have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students' engagements with these philosopher's often conceptually daunting works, these titles have also gained extraordinary popularity with a lay readership and quite often serve as "refreshers" for philosophy instructors.

Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers

Author : Per Brinch Hansen
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Brinch Hansen on Pascal Compilers written by Per Brinch Hansen and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1985 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pascal the Philosopher

Author : Graeme Hunter
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667001
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Pascal the Philosopher written by Graeme Hunter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal has always been appreciated as a literary giant and a religious guide, but has received only grudging recognition as a philosopher: philosophers have mistaken Pascal’s harsh criticism of their discipline as a rejection of it. But according to Graeme Hunter, Pascal’s critics have simply failed to grasp his lean, but powerful conception of philosophy. This accessibly written book provides the first introduction to Pascal’s philosophy as an organic whole. Hunter argues that Pascal’s aim is not merely to humble philosophy, but to save it from a kind of failure to which it is prone. He lays out Pascal’s development of a more promising and fruitful path for philosophical inquiry, one that responded to the scientific, religious, and political upheaval of his time. Finally, Hunter illuminates Pascal’s significance for contemporary readers, allowing him to emerge as the rare philosopher who is spiritual, literary, and rigorous all at once – both a brilliant controversialist and a thinker of substance.

Studies on Pascal

Author : Alexander Vinet
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382309858
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Studies on Pascal written by Alexander Vinet and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Studies on Pascal, tr., with an appendix of notes, partly taken from the writings of lord Bacon and dr. Chalmers, by T. Smith

Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Studies on Pascal, tr., with an appendix of notes, partly taken from the writings of lord Bacon and dr. Chalmers, by T. Smith written by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Taking Pascal's Wager

Author : Michael Rota
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830899995
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Taking Pascal's Wager written by Michael Rota and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WORLD Magazine’s Best Books of 2016 Short List Christianity Today's 2017 Book of the Year Award of Merit - Apologetics/Evangelism Since we can't know with absolute certainty that God exists, each of us in a sense makes a bet. If we believe in God and are right, the benefits include eternal life. If we are wrong, the downside is limited. On the other hand, we might not believe in God. If we are right, then we will have lived in line with reality. If we are wrong, however, the consequences could be eternally disastrous. This was the challenge posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal over three hundred years ago. But Michael Rota contends that Pascal's argument is still compelling today. Since there is much to gain (for ourselves as well as for others) and relatively little to lose, the wise decision is to seek a relationship with God and live a Christian life. Rota considers Pascal's wager and the roles of uncertainty, evidence and faith in making a commitment to God. By engaging with themes such as decision theory, the fine-tuning of the universe, divine hiddenness, the problem of evil, the historicity of the resurrection and the nature of miracles, he probes the many dynamics at work in embracing the Christian faith. In addition, Rota takes a turn not found in many books of philosophy. He looks at the actual effects of such a commitment in three recent, vivid, gripping examples—Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jean Vanier and Immaculée Ilibagiza. Like Pascal, Rota leaves us with a question: What wager will we make?

Pascal: Reasoning and Belief

Author : Michael Moriarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192588990
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Pascal: Reasoning and Belief written by Michael Moriarty and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Blaise Pascal's defence of Christian belief in the Pensées. Michael Moriarty aims to expound—and in places to criticize—what he argues is a coherent and original apologetic strategy. Setting out the basic philosophical and theological presuppositions of Pascal's project, the present volume draws the distinction between convictions attained by reason and those inspired by God-given faith. It also presents Pascal's view of the contradictions within human nature, between the 'wretchedness' (our inability to live the life of reason, to attain secure and durable happiness) and the 'greatness' (the power of thought, manifested in the very awareness of our wretchedness). His mind-body dualism and his mechanistic conception of non-human animals are discussed. Pascal invokes the biblical story of the Fall and the doctrine of original sin as the only credible explanation of these contradictions. His analysis of human occupations as powered by the twin desire to escape from painful thoughts and to gratify one's vanity is subjected to critical examination, as is his conception of the self and self-love. Pascal argues that just as Christianity propounds the only explanation for the human condition, so it offers the only kind of happiness that would satisfy our deepest longings. He thus reasons that we have an interest in investigating its truth-claims as rooted in the Bible and in history. The closing chapters of this book discuss Pascal's view of Christian morality and the famous 'wager' argument for opting in favour of Christian belief.

Pensées

Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986771336
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Pensées written by Blaise Pascal and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-11-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pensées Blaise Pascal - From the notes for Pascal's contemplated "Apology for the Christian Religion" the Port-Royalists compiled and edited the book known as his "Pensées" or "Thoughts." The early texts were much tampered with, and the material has been frequently rearranged; but now at last it is possible to read these fragmentary jottings as they came from the hand of their author. In spite of their incompleteness and frequent incoherence, the "Thoughts" have long held a high place among the great religious classics. Much of the theological argument implied in these utterances has little appeal to the modern mind, but the acuteness of the observation of human life, the subtlety of the reasoning, the combination of precision and fervid imagination in the expression, make this a book to which the discerning mind can return again and again for insight and inspiration.

Why Read Pascal?

Author : Paul J. Griffiths
Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813233844
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Why Read Pascal? written by Paul J. Griffiths and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is known in the English-speaking world principally for the wager (an argument that it is rational to do what will affect belief in God and irrational not to), and, more generally, for the Pensées, a collection of philosophical and theological fragments of unusual emotional and intellectual intensity collected and published after his death. He thought and wrote, however, about much more than this: mathematics; physics; grace, freedom, and predestination; the nature of the church; the Christian life; what it is to write and read; the order of things; the nature and purpose of human life; and more. He was among the polymaths of the seventeenth century, and among the principal apologists of his time for the Catholic faith, against both its Protestant opponents and its secular critics. Why Read Pascal? engages all the major topics of Pascal's theological and philosophical writing. It provides discussion of Pascal's literary style, his linked understandings of knowledge and of the various orders of things, his anthropology (with special attention to his presentation of affliction, death, and boredom), his politics, and his understanding of the relation between Christianity and Judaism. Pascal emerges as a literary stylist of a high order, a witty and polemical writer (never have the Jesuits been more thoroughly eviscerated), and, perhaps above all else, as someone concerned to show to Christianity's cultured despisers that the fabric of their own lives implies the truth of Christianity if only they can be brought to look at what their lives are like. Why Read Pascal? is the first book in English in a generation to engage all the principal themes in Pascal's theology and philosophy. The book takes Pascal seriously as an interlocutor and as a contributor of continuing relevance to Catholic thought; but it also offers criticisms of some among the positions he takes, showing, in doing so, how lively his writing remains for us now.

Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall

Author : William Wood
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199656363
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall written by William Wood and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains Pascal's understanding of the cognitive consequences of the Fall. For Pascal, the self is a fiction, constructed from without by an already duplicitous world. Drawing on the Pensées, William Wood demonstrates, by exegetical argument and constructive example, that 'Pascalian' theology is both possible and fruitful.

The Mind on Fire

Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Victor
ISBN 13 : 9780781441971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Mind on Fire written by Blaise Pascal and published by Victor. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) earned recognition as a renowned mathematician, physicist--and a man after God's heart. As he came to the forefront of geometry and physics, he turned his considerable analytical abilities to study religion or, as he said, to "contemplate the greatness and the misery of man." Pascal's classic defense of Christianity--Pensées--persuaded many a skeptic in his time. Today, editor James Houston has organized Pascal's meditations into a logical progression of thought that contemporary readers can enjoy in Mind on Fire. Described as a "Masterpiece of theological scholarship," Mind on Fire also includes selections from Pascal's Letters to a Provincial, a description of his conversion in his own words.

Pens閑s

Author : Blaise Pascal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0140446451
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Pens閑s written by Blaise Pascal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1995-12 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Macintosh Hands-on Pascal

Author : Theodore Gyle Lewis
Publisher : Brooks/Cole
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macintosh Hands-on Pascal written by Theodore Gyle Lewis and published by Brooks/Cole. This book was released on 1986 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Secret of Pascal

Author : H. F. Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521237807
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book The Secret of Pascal written by H. F. Stewart and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having already examined Pascal's religious thought and attitude in his previous book The Holiness of Pascal, in this 1941 text Stewart focuses on three other aspects of Pascal's genius: his skill in debate, his moral teaching, and his poetic mastery of language.

Wagering on an Ironic God

Author : Thomas S. Hibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481306386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Wagering on an Ironic God written by Thomas S. Hibbs and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascal thus wagers all on the irony of a God who both startles and astonishes wisdom's true lovers.

Pascal Geometer

Author : Stephen C. Bold
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600001557
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Pascal Geometer written by Stephen C. Bold and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1996 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Holding Hands with Pascal

Author : Bart B. Bruehler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625641702
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Holding Hands with Pascal written by Bart B. Bruehler and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-28 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holding Hands with Pascal is about the story of one family's journey to follow Christ with a special-needs child. The chapters intertwine memoir, biblical study, and theological reflection to reveal that weakness is a gift from God that is indispensable for our discipleship. Ranging from creation through daily life to the return of Jesus, a father tells of how the unusual and challenging life of his son, Pascal, has affected their entire family and where they have found morsels of grace in scripture and community to help sustain them. For families with special-needs children, groups seeking to grow as disciples, and churches seeking a way of faith-in-weakness, Holding Hands with Pascal offers insights and an inspiration for the way.