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Neither Angel nor Beast - The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal (Paperback)
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Neither Angel nor Beast - The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
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Blaise Pascal began as a mathematical prodigy, developed into a
physicist and inventor, and had become by the end of his life in
1662 a profound religious thinker. As a philosopher, he was most
convinced by the long tradition of scepticism, and so refused -
like Kierkegaard - to build a philosophical or theological system.
Instead, he argued that the human heart required other forms of
discourse to come to terms with the basic existential questions -
our nature, purpose and relationship with God. This introduction to
the life and philosophical thought of Pascal is intended for the
general reader. Strikingly illustrated, it traces the antithetical
tensions in Pascal's life from his infancy, when he was said to
have been placed under the spell of a sorceress, to his final years
of extreme asceticism. Pascal stressed both the misery and
greatness of humanity, our finitude and our comprehension of the
infinite. The book shows how his life, philosophical thought and
literary style can best be understood in the light of the
paradoxical view of human nature. It covers the methods of argument
and the central issues of the Provincial Letters and of the
Pensees; the Introduction places Pascal's thought in the religious
and political climate of seventeenth-century France, and a
'Chronology of the Life of Pascal' is also included.
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