Neither angel nor beast : the life and work of Blaise Pascal
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Neither angel nor beast : the life and work of Blaise Pascal
（Routledge library editions, . Philosophy of religion ; v. 9）
Routledge, 2013
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986
Set ISBN for subseries "Philosophy of religion": 9780415659697
Bibliography: p. 216-219
Includes index
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内容説明
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.
目次
Preface Introduction Part 1: Scenes from the Life of Pascal 1. A Sister's Biography 2. A Witch's Spell 3. Pious Appraisals 4. The 'Memorial 5. Probing Nature and the Heart 6. Coming to Terms with God 7. The Nascent Polemicist 8. Letters to Family, Friends and Savants 9. God's Champion Part 2: Views on the Works of PascalI The Provincial Letters 10. The Politics of Orthodoxy 11. An Innocent Astonished 12. The Wiles of the Casuists 13. An Innocent on the Defensive II The Pensees 14. The Supreme Apologist 15. How to Sway the Doubtful 16. Man Without God 17. Man With God 18. The Wager 19. The Heart 20. The Mystery of Jesus 21. Life in the Church. Conclusion
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