Download or read book Pascal s Pens es written by Blaise Pascal and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascal's Pensées or, Thoughts is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work.

Download or read book The Geometry of Thought Pascal s Early Mathematical and Scientific Writings written by Blaise Pascal and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Descartes wordt terecht beschouwd als de vader van de moderne filosofie” - Schopenhauer Een nieuwe 2024 vertaling rechtstreeks uit de originele manuscripten in het Engels van Descartes' beroemde werk “Abstract of Music” (Compendium musicæ) uit 1619. Deze editie bevat een nieuwe inleiding en nawoord van de vertaler, evenals een tijdlijn van Descartes' leven en samenvattingen van elk van zijn werken. Descartes schreef deze verhandeling in 1618, tijdens zijn verblijf in Breda, toen hij nog maar 22 jaar oud was. Het werd pas na zijn dood gedrukt. Het bespreekt de relatie tussen muziek en wiskunde en hoe muziek begrepen kan worden door middel van wiskundige principes. Dit werk beïnvloedde latere discussies over de wiskundige grondslagen van muziek. De tekst legt uit dat muziek het vermogen heeft om verschillende passies op te wekken door variaties in tijd, intensiteit en de rangschikking van klanken te gebruiken. Muziek kan gevoelens van verdriet, vreugde of angst oproepen en deze emotionele effecten worden toegeschreven aan harmonie, ritme en proportie in de compositie van klanken. Hier worden de “belangrijkste eigenschappen van geluid”, zoals toonhoogte (hoog of laag) en duur (tijd), geanalyseerd om te laten zien hoe ze de emotionele reactie van de luisteraar beïnvloeden. Hij legt het belang uit van proportie, symmetrie en variatie bij het creëren van aangename geluiden. Descartes verkent ook concepten als consonantie, dissonantie en de verdeling van klanken in intervallen (octaven, kwinten en tertsen) en benadrukt de wiskundige relaties die de basis vormen van harmonie. Tot slot gaat de tekst in op hoe de structuur van muziek, in het bijzonder de maat en het ritme, kan leiden tot lichamelijke reacties zoals dans, wat de diepe connectie tussen muziek en de menselijke ervaring van emotie illustreert - muziek terugbrengend naar zijn beroemde lichaam-ziel dualiteit en een ontluikende fenomenologie.

Download or read book Pascal s Apology for Religion written by Blaise Pascal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1942, this book constitutes the companion volume to The Heart of Pascal (1945); both volumes were formed using selections from Pascal's Pensées. The text gathers together a series of selections, presented in French, which illustrate Pascal's Christian faith and thoughts on the relationship between man and God. An appendix and preface by the editor are also provided. This is a highly informative book that will be of value to anyone with an interest in Pascal and his late thought.

Download or read book Pascal s Pensees written by Blaise Pascal and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal: Pascal's Pensées is a collection of philosophical and theological thoughts by mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal. The collection contains a series of fragmented reflections on various subjects, including human nature, faith, skepticism, and the search for meaning in life. Key Aspects of the Book "Pascal's Pensées": Philosophical Musings: Pascal's Pensées presents a series of profound and contemplative reflections on a wide range of philosophical and theological topics. Exploration of Faith and Skepticism: The book delves into the tension between faith and skepticism, examining the rational and emotional aspects of belief in the divine. Insights into Human Nature: Pascal offers insights into the complexities of human nature, examining the paradoxes, desires, and motivations that shape human behavior. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. He made significant contributions to mathematics and the development of probability theory. Pascal's Pensées, written during his final years, showcases his philosophical and theological thoughts, reflecting his profound intellect and introspective nature.

Download or read book Pascal s Pensees written by Blaise Pascal and published by Bibliotech Press. This book was released on 2023-01-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work. Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 - 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, and Catholic writer. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest mathematical work was on conic sections; he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator. Like his contemporary René Descartes, Pascal was also a pioneer in the natural and applied sciences. Pascal wrote in defense of the scientific method and produced several controversial results. He made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Following Torricelli and Galileo Galilei, he rebutted the likes of Aristotle and Descartes who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum in 1647. In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism. Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. The latter contains Pascal's Wager, known in the original as the Discourse on the Machine, a fideistic probabilistic argument for God's existence. In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659, he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids. Throughout his life, Pascal was in frail health, especially after the age of 18; he died just two months after his 39th birthday. (wikipedia.org)

Download or read book The Best of Pascal written by Blaise Pascal and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-25 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Starting in 1657, Pascal began to write notes that would be posthumously organized and published as the Pensées ("Thoughts"). In this, his most famous work, Pascal often writes with great philosophical profundity about his position on faith, the human condition, the meaning of life, the way to happiness, and other philosophical and theological questions. The most often cited portion of the collection is Pascal's famed "Wager," in which he states that it is more advantageous for religious skeptics to embrace a belief in God as they ultimately have more to lose if the existence of God, in particular the Christian God, is revealed after death. In this book are collected the most profound and thought-provoking passages from the Pensées, along with occasional explanation and commentary by Darrell Wright.

Download or read book Pascal s Pens es written by Blaise Pascal and published by Cervantes Digital. This book was released on 2024-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the intellectual world of Blaise Pascal with "Pascal's Pensées," a collection of profound and thought-provoking reflections that transcends the boundaries of time. Within the pages of this literary masterpiece, Pascal, a brilliant mathematician and philosopher of the 17th century, invites readers on a journey of contemplation and introspection. In "Pascal's Pensées," one encounters a tapestry of ideas exploring the human condition, faith, and the enigmatic nature of existence. Pascal's razor-sharp intellect delves into the complexities of belief, offering a nuanced perspective on religion and reason. From musings on the fragility of human life to profound reflections on the vastness of the cosmos, each entry in this collection is a gem that sparkles with intellectual brilliance. As you navigate through Pascal's labyrinth of thoughts, you'll find yourself captivated by the elegance of his prose and the depth of his insights. This timeless work not only unveils the philosophical musings of a great mind but also serves as an invitation to engage in a dialogue with the fundamental questions that have intrigued humanity for centuries. "Pascal's Pensées" is not just a book; it's an intellectual odyssey that continues to resonate with readers, inviting them to explore the intricate tapestry of human existence.

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Download or read book Pascal and Disbelief written by David Wetsel and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""This study constitutes a major contribution to the literature on Pascal. . . . [It] should be read by all students of Pascal, as well as by a wider audience of readers interested in the apologist. . . . The serious reader . . . will find an excellent introduction to Pascal's Penses as well as a wealth of scholarly information useful for embarking on a serious study of that great work of apologetics.""--Professor Lane M. Heller, Department of French, The University of Western Ontario ""The originality of Pascal and Disbelief consists in its ability to draw together under a single critical scrutiny the diverse targets of the apologist: atheists; deists; the lukewarm . . .; heterodox eccentrics . . . ; Muslims; Chinese; the pagans of classical antiquity. In and of itself, the choice of such a critical perspective illuminates all sorts of fragmentary texts found in the Penses and brings to the fore a number of entirely new questions. Having synthesized the contributions of the commentators who preceded him, Professor Wetsel goes on to develop a series of completely innovative analyses. He is up to date on the most recent findings of Pascalian research, which he successfully integrates into his study. . . . Pascal and Disbelief both enlightens and provokes: it is illuminating because of the diversity of its scholarly contributions and challenging because . . . it opens new areas of scholarly investigation.""-- Philippe Sellier, from the Foreword Although Blaise Pascal's Penses have occupied a uniquely privileged niche in the literary canon in France for over three centuries, they had long slumbered in America. It is just in the last thirty years that critical theorists in this country have been discovering in them texts rich in modernist and post-modernist readings. Still, critics here have largely ignored the renewal in traditional Pascal studies that has occurred in France over the last four decades. Pascal and Disbelief introduces American readers to the recent developments in Pascal scholarship, particularly the return of the Penses to their original status as the working draft of Pascal's never-completed Apology for the Christian Religion. All sources, including critical commentary and little-known seventeenth-century texts, are presented both in their original French and in English translation. This new work aims to answer a question that has puzzled readers since the Pens,es first appeared in 1670: To whom is Pascal's call to Christian conversion really addressed? David Wetsel asserts that the answer lies in a series of fragments he believes represent Pascal's draft of a preface to the Apology. He argues, based on these fragments, that Pascal's call to conversion was directed not at the erudite atheists or resolute skeptics of his time but at those ""seekers"" who had not yet fallen into hardened disbelief. This conclusion depends on an essential distinction that Pascal makes throughout the Penses between two forms of disbelief, the alterable and the incorrigible. This distinction, Wetsel maintains, is deeply rooted in Pascal's allegiance to the Augustinian doctrines of election and predestination. For Pascal, the truly hardened, incorrigible disbelievers must be numbered among the damned. The ""seekers,"" however, would be susceptible to the shock tactics he employs in the first half of the Apology. By approaching the Penses from the vista of the contemporary study of the history of religions, Wetsel seeks to contribute to a rapprochement between modernist and traditionalist Pascal studies and thereby initiate a new dialogue between theology and critical theory. David Wetsel is associate professor of French at Arizona State University and the author of L'Ecriture et le Reste: The Penses of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal.

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