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Why Read Pascal? (Paperback)
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Why Read Pascal? (Paperback)
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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 Pensees, 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.
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