Fire in the dark : essays on Pascal's Pensées and Provinciales /
Pascal's Pens©♭es afford a deeply penetrating view of the human condition [or predicament] as a prelude to a luminously reasoned defense of the Christian faith. His Provincial Letters are best remembered as a wickedly funny satire of "obliging and accommodating" Jesuit moral theologia...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Rochester studies in philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Fire in the dark
- The Provinciales : ruse against ruse, force against force?
- Preferring to live in a tree-trunk : the Provinciales as Heauton timoroumenos
- Revelation/revolution : a reflection on newness in the Provinciales
- Proof in the Pensées : reason as rhetoric, rhetoric as reason
- The fundamental role of justice in Pascal's apologetics : the hidden God
- Mystic/anti-mystic : on speech and silence in Pascal's Mémorial
- "Watchman, what of the night?"