Download or read book Neither Angel nor Beast written by Francis X.J. Coleman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Pensées; 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.
Download or read book Pascal and Rhetoric written by Erec R. Koch and published by Rookwood Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Blaise Pascal written by Mary Ann Caws and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have had as many influences on as many different fields as true Renaissance man Blaise Pascal. At once a mathematician, philosopher, theologian, physicist, and engineer, Pascal’s discoveries, experiments, and theories helped usher in a modern world of scientific thought and methodology. In this singular book on this singular genius, distinguished scholar Mary Ann Caws explores the rich contributions of this extraordinary thinker, interweaving his writings and discoveries with an account of his life and career and the wider intellectual world of his time. Caws takes us back to Pascal’s youth, when he was a child prodigy first engaging mathematics through the works of mathematicians such as Father Mersenne. She describes his early scientific experiments and his construction of mechanical calculating machines; she looks at his correspondence with important thinkers such as René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat; she surveys his many inventions, such as the first means of public transportation in Paris; and she considers his later religious exaltations in works such as the “Memorial.” Along the way, Caws examines Pascal’s various modes of writing—whether he is arguing with the strict puritanical modes of church politics, assuming the personality of a naïve provincial trying to understand the Jesuitical approach, offering pithy aphorisms in the Pensées, or meditating on thinking about thinking itself. Altogether, this book lays side by side many aspects of Pascal’s life and work that are seldom found in a single volume: his religious motivations and faith, his scientific passions, and his practical savvy. The result is a comprehensive but easily approachable account of a fascinating and influential figure.
Download or read book The Master Key written by Lauron William De Laurence and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Education of self written by Paul Dubois and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Education of Self L ducation de Soi m me written by Paul Dubois and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pascal the Philosopher written by Graeme Hunter and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an introduction to Pascal as a philosopher, outlining his path for philosophical inquiry, one that responds to the scientific, religious, and political upheaval of the time.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia Edited by J Edmands written by Mercantile Library Company (PHILADELPHIA) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pascal written by Michael Moriarty and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Moriarty presents the deepest and broadest study for many years of Blaise Pascal's philosophy and theology, as represented in his Pensees, a seminal work in the development of modern thought. Central themes are the distinction between faith and reason, the contradictions within human nature, and the relation between mind and body.
Download or read book The Christian Writer s Manual of Style written by Robert Hudson and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The standard style guide of the Christian publishing industry, The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style, 4th Edition, compiled by veteran Zondervan editor Robert Hudson, contains clear guidance on style questions related to religious writing, including many topics not addressed in other references or online. Nearly half of this fourth revision is made up of new material, including information about turning blogs into books, the effects of digital media on writing, “adverbial doubles,” “vanishing accents,” word-choice strategies, endorser guidelines, and much more. It also contains an all-new “Word List” which makes up more than a third of the book. The most needful information remains—entries on capitalization, abbreviation, citations, fictional dialogue, and more—but it has all been updated to keep pace with changes in English language usage. This fourth edition also corresponds with The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Edition (2010), though it isn’t afraid to chart new territory where that reference is unhelpful on issues of religious writing. Comprehensive yet easy-to-use, The Christian Writer’s Manual of Style, 4th Edition, is a go-to resource for Christian authors, pastors, teachers, copy writers, editors, proofreaders, publishing and ministry professionals, executive assistants, and students—anyone who writes or edits as a part of their work or study—and for grammar aficionados everywhere.
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1978 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unpublished Fragments from the Period of Dawn Winter 1879 80 Spring 1881 written by Friedrich Nietzsche and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first English translation of Nietzsche's unpublished notes from late 1879 to early 1881, the period in which he authored Dawn, the second book in the trilogy that began with Human, All Too Human and concluded with The Joyful Science. In these fragments, we see Nietzsche developing the conceptual triad of morals, customs, and ethics, which undergirds his critique of morality as the reification into law or dogma of conceptions of good and evil. Here, Nietzsche assesses Christianity's role in the determination of moral values as the highest values and of redemption as the representation of humanity's highest aspirations. These notes show the resulting tension between Nietzsche's contrasting thoughts on modernity, which he critiques as an unrecognized aftereffect of the Christian worldview, but also views as the springboard to "the dawn" of a transformed humanity and culture. The fragments further allow readers insight into Nietzsche's continuous internal debate with exemplary figures in his own life and culture—Napoleon, Schopenhauer, and Wagner—who represented challenges to hitherto existing morals and culture—challenges that remained exemplary for Nietzsche precisely in their failure. Presented in Nietzsche's aphoristic style, Dawn is a book that must be read between the lines, and these fragments are an essential aid to students and scholars seeking to probe this work and its partners.
Download or read book A Thinking Reed written by Stephen N. Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was a provocative and important thinker. Both the range and the influence of his work is immense. His Pensees ("Thoughts"), unfinished and composed of fragments, is widely regarded as a classic of Christian apologetics. In this volume, the reader is introduced to this work, with a view to both describing what Pascal says and assessing its present value. After introducing the man and his life, Pascal's views on reason and the heart, and on human wretchedness and greatness, are discussed before asking in a final chapter, "Would you bet on God?" An appendix treats Pascal and modernity. Four hundred years on, Pascal's voice can still be heard. Four hundred years on, we still need to heed it. Pascal does not simply speak from the mind to the mind. He speaks as a person to persons.
Download or read book The House of Yes written by Wendy MacLeod and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: It's Thanksgiving, and Marty's arrival home is greatly anticipated by his mother, Mrs. Pascal, his twin sister, Jackie-O, and his younger brother, Anthony. He arrives during a hurricane, but worse than the storm is the fact that Marty br
Download or read book 10 000 Drinks written by Paul Knorr and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recipes and tips for 10,000 alcholic and nonalcoholic mixed drinks, eye-openers, party starters, pick-me-ups, and thirst-quenching libations.
Download or read book The Pilgrim written by William Temple and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Recent books."
Download or read book The English Catalogue of Books written by Sampson Low and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
