Blaise Pascal on duplicity, sin, and the Fall : the secret instinct /

This book explains Pascal's understanding of the cognitive consequences of the Fall. For Pascal, the self is a fiction constructed from without by an already duplicitous world. Drawing on the 'Pensées', William Wood demonstrates, by exegetical argument and constructive example, that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wood, William Dalton
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Colección:Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology.
Temas:
Pascal, Blaise, > 1623-1662.
Pascal, Blaise, > 1623-1662. > Pensées.
Pascal, Blaise, > 1623-1662
Pascal, Blaise > 1623-1662
Pensées (Pascal, Blaise)
1600-1699
Apologetics > History > 17th century.
Fall of man > History of doctrines > 17th century.
Sin, Original.
Apologétique > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Chute de l'homme > Histoire des doctrines > 17e siècle.
Péché originel.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern.
Apologetics
Fall of man > History of doctrines
Sin, Original
Sündenfall
Selbsttäuschung
Arvsynden.
Syndafallet.
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The evaluative fall : disordered love and the aversion to truth
  • The reign of duplicity : Pascal's political theology
  • The imaginary self in a world of illusion : Pascal on the fallen human subject
  • Sin and self-deception in Pascal's moral theology
  • On lying to oneself : analytic philosophy on self-deception
  • A Pascalian model of sin as self-deception : morally culpable self-persuasion
  • The way back : on loving the truth.

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