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Title: Pensees by Blaise Pascal ISBN: 0-14-044171-9 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 July, 1966 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Rough but insightful.
Comment: Pascal, the brilliant mathematician, physicist, and engineer, presents in his posthumously titled Pensees, his philosophy of religion and a paradox rich and challenging defense of Christian faith. Says Pascal, "Knowledge has two extremes which meet; one is the pure natural ignorance of every man at birth, the other is the extreme reached by great minds who run through the whole range of human knowledge, only to find that they know nothing... but it is a wise ignorance which knows itself. Those who stand half-way... pretend to understand everything... they get everything wrong."
The book is a collection of unfinished writings; arguments and ideas which he had scribbled, intending to then develop and elaborate. As such, the text is disjointed and even mysterious; statements are abrupt, incomplete, dogmatic. Yet, out of respect for the intellectual accomplishments of the great French mathematician, these notes were published essentially as he had left them. They contain many gems; profound statements which stand like islands in a sea of sometimes jumbled thoughts.
Pascal's themes are: the nature of human knowledge, the affliction of pride, the blindness and tyranny of self, the boundaries of reason, the hiddenness of God, and his own argument for "wagering" not only on God, but on the Christian faith. Two things are obvious; (1.) the arguments are not in the form in which Pascal intended to offer them, therefore, (2.) this is not a definitive apologetic. However, Pascal's arguments are rather unique and as such they are interesting even in their [often] crude form. Read this book in conjunction with the writings of C.S. Lewis, Augustine, or Sundar Singh.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ultra Wise, Part 3
Comment: People should not be allowed to graduate high school without having first read this book and written a comprehensive essay on it. 'Pensees' is much more than an apology for the Christian faith, it is an investigation into and search for levels of temperance in all areas of human endeavor. Pascal's seemingly simple yet ultra-deep ruminations about life and mind will forever immunize any diligent reader against the tragedy of superficial thinking and instill the comedy of balanced comprehensiveness.
Rating: 5
Summary: poetic work of religious philosophy
Comment: Pascals thoughts, because they are raw, are intense and beautiful. I can't think of a more poetic work of philosophy.
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Title: Making Sense of It All Pascal and the Meaning of Life by Thomas V. Morris ISBN: 080280652X Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Confessions (OXFORD WORLD'S CLASSICS) by Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick ISBN: 0192833723 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Mind on Fire: A Faith for the Skeptical and Indifferent by Blaise Pascal, James M. Houston ISBN: 1573832456 Publisher: Regent College Publishing Pub. Date: 01 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton, Ignatius Pr ISBN: 0898705525 Publisher: Ignatius Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog by James W Sire, James W. Sire ISBN: 0830818995 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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