Pens'ees and Other Writings 0199540365, 9780199540365

For much of his life Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in its intended form. Instead, h

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Table of contents :
Cover
Half-Title Page
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
NOTE ON THE TEXT
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
A CHRONOLOGY OF BLAISE PASCAL
PENSÉES and Other Writings
TABLE OF LIASSE TITLES
II. ORDER
III. VANITY
IV. WRETCHEDNESS
V. BOREDOM AND QUALITIES ESSENTIAL TO MANKIND
VI. CAUSE AND EFFECTS
VII. GREATNESS
VIII. CONTRADICTIONS
IX. DIVERSION
X. PHILOSOPHERS
XI. THE SOVEREIGN GOOD
XII. A.P.R.
XIII. BEGINNING
XIV. SUBMISSION AND USE OF REASON IN WHICH TRUE CHRISTIANITY CONSISTS
XV. EXCELLENCE OF THIS WAY OF PROVING GOD
XVI. TRANSITION FROM KNOWLEDGE OF MAN TO KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
XVII. NATURE IS CORRUPT AND FALSENESS OF OTHER RELIGIONS
XVIII. TO MAKE RELIGION ATTRACTIVE
XIX. FOUNDATIONS OF RELIGION AND ANSWER TO OBJECTIONS
XXII. PERPETUITY
XXIV. PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST
XXVII. CHRISTIAN MORALITY
XXVIII. CONCLUSION
XXXI. SERIES
XXXII. MIRACLES 3
XXXIII. SERIES
XXXIV
XXXV
XXXVI
XXXVII
XXXVIII
XXXIX
EUCHARIST
XXXIX
XL
XLII. MATHEMATICS/INTUITION
XLIII. MATHEMATICS/INTUITION
XLV. DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE MACHINE
XLVI. A LETTER TO FURTHER THE SEARCH FOR GOD
XLVII. DISCOURSE CONCERNING CORRUPTION
LIII
LXI. FIGURATIVE LAW
FRAGMENTS FROM OTHER SOURCES
DISCUSSION WITH MONSIEUR DE SACY
THE ART OF PERSUASION
WRITINGS ON GRACE
LETTER [ON THE POSSIBILITY OF THE COMMANDMENTS]
TREATISE CONCERNING PREDESTINATION
CALVINISTS
MOLINISTS
FOLLOWERS OF ST AUGUSTINE
DOCTRINE OF ST AUGUSTINE
OPINIONS OF THE OTHER PELAGIANS
CALVIN'S OPINION
EXPLANATORY NOTES
THEMATIC INDEX

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