Pensees
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352 pages
"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 Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an im
ISBN: 9781017848328
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Chris Hayes
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book list View source ↗"This is a fun list of book recs. My own is Pensees by Pascal, which I've just read for the first time and is insightful and strange and great."
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