Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal
Always visible content **Pascal's Pensées** by Blaise Pascal is a collection of fragments written in the 17th century. Left incomplete at Pascal's death in 1662, these notes were intended as a defense of Christianity. The work introduces "Pascal's wager" and challenges both cosmological proofs of God and atheist critiques of faith. Pascal argues that God is hidden and found only through sincere seeking. Published posthumously in 1670, the fragments' intended order remains debated, inspiring numerous Hidden checkbox to control the toggle Clickable label to show more The extra text that is initially hidden Clickable label to show less editions and influencing thinkers from Heidegger to Sartre. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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Chapters (20)
- Chapter 1 Ch.1
- INTRODUCTION BY Ch.2
- INTRODUCTION Ch.3
- introduction to the _Pensees_, are as follows. He was born at Clermont, Ch.4
- INTRODUCTION By T. S. Eliot vii Ch.5
- Part I, 1, 2, c. 1, section 4.[44] Ch.6
- part I tell you, "You would soon have faith, if you renounced pleasure." Ch.7
- 1. In having preferred diversion and hunting to poetry. The half-learned Ch.8
- 2. In having distinguished men by external marks, as birth or wealth. Ch.9
- 3. In being offended at a blow, on in desiring glory so much. But it is Ch.10
