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Why read Pascal? /
"This brief but comprehensive introduction to French author Blaise Pascal provides an overview of his life and works and examines the major themes in his writings"-- Provided by publisher.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
The Catholic University of America Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Why read?
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Life and works
- 2 Style
- 2.1 Natural style
- 2.2 Style and the Order of Things
- 2.3 Polemic
- 2.4 Dialectic
- 2.5 Aphorism and irony
- 3 Order
- 3.1 Intellectual and political order
- 3.2 Orders of Being and orders of investigation
- 3.3 Three orders: body, mind, love
- 3.4 What reason can do
- 3.5 Disorder and the limits of order
- 4 Anthropology
- 4.1 Affliction
- 4.2 Diversion
- 4.3 Custom
- 4.4 Conversion
- 4.5 Wager
- 5 Grace
- 5.1 The five propositions
- 5.2 Pascal's language for grace
- 5.3 Keeping the commandments
- 5.4 Delectation and non-competition
- 5.5 Predestination
- 6 Politics
- 6.1 Secular cities
- 6.2 The Ecclesial City
- 7 Jews
- 7.1 Christians of the Old Law
- 7.2 Supersession
- 7.3 Rabbinage
- Epilogue
- Concordance to Pensees.