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Human Happiness by Blaise Pascal
Category: Culture | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in "Human Happiness" are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life - or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have ...Show more
Pensees by Blaise Pascal
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
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 philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explo ...Show more
Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Category: Philosophy | Series: Dover Thrift Editions Ser.
"I know of no religious writer more pertinent to our time." -- T. S. Eliot, Introduction to Pens es"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true," declared Pascal in his Pens es. "The cure for this," he explained, "is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy ...Show more
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