Pensées (Penguin Classics) | Author: Blaise Pascal | Language: English | Publisher: Penguin Classics | Dimensions: 7.82 x 5.08 x 0.87 inches | ISBN-10: 140446451 | ISBN-13: 978-0140446456 | Publication Date: December 1, 1995 | Print Length: 368 pages

A precocious contemporary of Descartes, Blaise Pascal was a skilled mathematician and physicist. However, it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion that forms the basis of his enduring reputation. The Penseés is a collection in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical, and—above all—theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal’s analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God’s grace.

This translation conveys Pascal’s disarmingly personal tone and captures the fire and passion of the original. Also contained in this volume are a comparison between different editions, appendices, and a bibliography.

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