Pascal Pens Es Selections
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Pascal Pens Es Selections
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language : en
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Release Date : 1959
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Pascal S Pens Es
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Author : Blaise Pascal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
Pascal S Pens Es written by Blaise Pascal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Apolegetics--17th century categories.
Pascal And Disbelief
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Author : David Wetsel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Pascal And Disbelief written by David Wetsel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Philosophy categories.
""This study constitutes a major contribution to the literature on Pascal. . . . [It] should be read by all students of Pascal, as well as by a wider audience of readers interested in the apologist. . . . The serious reader . . . will find an excellent introduction to Pascal's Penses as well as a wealth of scholarly information useful for embarking on a serious study of that great work of apologetics.""--Professor Lane M. Heller, Department of French, The University of Western Ontario ""The originality of Pascal and Disbelief consists in its ability to draw together under a single critical scrutiny the diverse targets of the apologist: atheists; deists; the lukewarm . . .; heterodox eccentrics . . . ; Muslims; Chinese; the pagans of classical antiquity. In and of itself, the choice of such a critical perspective illuminates all sorts of fragmentary texts found in the Penses and brings to the fore a number of entirely new questions. Having synthesized the contributions of the commentators who preceded him, Professor Wetsel goes on to develop a series of completely innovative analyses. He is up to date on the most recent findings of Pascalian research, which he successfully integrates into his study. . . . Pascal and Disbelief both enlightens and provokes: it is illuminating because of the diversity of its scholarly contributions and challenging because . . . it opens new areas of scholarly investigation.""-- Philippe Sellier, from the Foreword Although Blaise Pascal's Penses have occupied a uniquely privileged niche in the literary canon in France for over three centuries, they had long slumbered in America. It is just in the last thirty years that critical theorists in this country have been discovering in them texts rich in modernist and post-modernist readings. Still, critics here have largely ignored the renewal in traditional Pascal studies that has occurred in France over the last four decades. Pascal and Disbelief introduces American readers to the recent developments in Pascal scholarship, particularly the return of the Penses to their original status as the working draft of Pascal's never-completed Apology for the Christian Religion. All sources, including critical commentary and little-known seventeenth-century texts, are presented both in their original French and in English translation. This new work aims to answer a question that has puzzled readers since the Pens,es first appeared in 1670: To whom is Pascal's call to Christian conversion really addressed? David Wetsel asserts that the answer lies in a series of fragments he believes represent Pascal's draft of a preface to the Apology. He argues, based on these fragments, that Pascal's call to conversion was directed not at the erudite atheists or resolute skeptics of his time but at those ""seekers"" who had not yet fallen into hardened disbelief. This conclusion depends on an essential distinction that Pascal makes throughout the Penses between two forms of disbelief, the alterable and the incorrigible. This distinction, Wetsel maintains, is deeply rooted in Pascal's allegiance to the Augustinian doctrines of election and predestination. For Pascal, the truly hardened, incorrigible disbelievers must be numbered among the damned. The ""seekers,"" however, would be susceptible to the shock tactics he employs in the first half of the Apology. By approaching the Penses from the vista of the contemporary study of the history of religions, Wetsel seeks to contribute to a rapprochement between modernist and traditionalist Pascal studies and thereby initiate a new dialogue between theology and critical theory. David Wetsel is associate professor of French at Arizona State University and the author of L'Ecriture et le Reste: The Penses of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal.
Pascal S God Shaped Vacuum
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Author : Peter Brian Gilbert
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Pascal S God Shaped Vacuum written by Peter Brian Gilbert and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Religion categories.
Blaise Pascal wrote the Pensées to his skeptical and restless friends to move them to seek God. The Pensées are widely regarded as one of the most exhilarating and effective defenses of the Christian faith ever written, particularly for today's readers who resemble Pascal's friends. This comprehensive guided tour of Pascal's Pensées, plus biography of Pascal's courageous life, aims to benefit seekers and believers by conveying Pascal's insights into: (1) Why a human being is miserable without God; (2) Why Christianity uniquely offers a winsome and efficacious cure; and (3) Why Christianity, despite modern objections, is plausibly true. The greatest significance of Pascal's Pensées may be their compelling articulation of the unique relevance of Christ's gospel for our time. In T.S. Eliot's words, “But I can think of no Christian writer, not Newman even, more to be commended than Pascal to those who doubt, but who have the mind to conceive, and the sensibility to feel, the disorder, the futility, the meaninglessness, the mystery of life and suffering, and who can only find peace through a satisfaction of the whole being.”Pascal's signature Pensée undergirding the themes of this guided tour is number 148: “What else does this craving proclaim but that there was once in man a true state of happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object, in other words by God himself.” Through this Pensée and many others Pascal wakes us up to appreciate that we may have a God-shaped vacuum in our heart, as suggested, for example, by our affinity for diversions and indifference as ways to avoid addressing our grimmest problems such as our impending deaths, unhappiness, and unjust self-absorption. The Pensées in particular address how a person this side of the technological revolution can seriously consider Christian truth and life in the face of contemporary countervailing currents including scientism, cynicism, and entertainment culture. Pascal's case for why to seek and believe is especially relevant for today because he wrote to modern secular society, to ambitious pursuers of career success, to the bored and indifferent, to intellectual skeptics. In contrast, classical rational apologetics hardly penetrate this group, because they neglect the readers' psychology, mistakenly pre-supposing they are open to seeking God. By combining style, wit, and reasoned arguments to move both the heart and mind, Pascal's Pensées are known for setting his listeners on fire to take up an interest in seeking. The Pensées will appeal to those who enjoy brilliant writing and wish to gain deeper insight into the human condition. As Professor Henry Phillips put it, “Pascal offers a portrait of the human condition that provokes questions whose answers will be found only in the Christian religion.” The Pensées are especially on target for readers who struggle with how a reasonable person living in today's technological era can be a Christian; for these Pascal is indispensible reading and the ultimate mentor. In addition to helping seekers work out their doubts about belief, this guided tour aims to make Pascal's thoughts practically helpful for a Christian to live life congruently with the gospel, and in particular to better weather modern doubts and criticisms. This book was inspired by the excellent guided tour of the Pensées (Christianity for Modern Pagans, 1993) by Professor Peter Kreeft, and from learning that many fellow Christians count the Pensées as one of their all-time most helpful reads. Given the stature of Pascal as a colossal Christian thinker, it is surprising that very few comprehensive guided tours with objective to help modern seekers and believers have been published, and this book helps fill this space.Forward by Reverand Earl F. Palmer
A Selection From Pascal S Thoughts Tr By H L S Lear
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Author : Blaise Pascal
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
A Selection From Pascal S Thoughts Tr By H L S Lear written by Blaise Pascal and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
This volume includes a selection of the famous philosopher Blaise Pascal's most compelling thoughts on topics such as faith, reason, and the nature of man. Translated into English by H.L.S. Lear, this book offers readers a window into the mind of one of history's greatest thinkers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
The Thoughts Letters And Opuscules Of Blaise Pascal 1859
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Author : Blaise Pascal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-08
The Thoughts Letters And Opuscules Of Blaise Pascal 1859 written by Blaise Pascal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08 with Literary Collections categories.
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
The Best Of Pascal
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Author : Blaise Pascal
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-03-25
The Best Of Pascal written by Blaise Pascal and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-25 with categories.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. Starting in 1657, Pascal began to write notes that would be posthumously organized and published as the Pensées ("Thoughts"). In this, his most famous work, Pascal often writes with great philosophical profundity about his position on faith, the human condition, the meaning of life, the way to happiness, and other philosophical and theological questions. The most often cited portion of the collection is Pascal's famed "Wager," in which he states that it is more advantageous for religious skeptics to embrace a belief in God as they ultimately have more to lose if the existence of God, in particular the Christian God, is revealed after death. In this book are collected the most profound and thought-provoking passages from the Pensées, along with occasional explanation and commentary by Darrell Wright.
Pascal S Pensees By Blaise Pascal
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Author : Blaise Pascal
language : en
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Release Date : 2017-10-31
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Blaise Pascal19 June 1623 - 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic theologian. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalising the work of Evangelista Torricelli. Pascal also wrote in defence of the scientific method.In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines. After three years of effort and 50 prototypes,[he built 20 finished machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) over the following 10 years, establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the subject of projective geometry at the age of 16, and later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. Following Galileo Galilei and Torricelli, in 1647, he rebutted Aristotle's followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum. Pascal's results caused many disputes before being accepted.In 1646, he and his sister Jacqueline identified with the religious movement within Catholicism known by its detractors as Jansenism. His father died in 1651. Following a religious experience in late 1654, he began writing influential works on philosophy and theology. His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pens�es, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits. In that year, he also wrote an important treatise on the arithmetical triangle. Between 1658 and 1659 he wrote on the cycloid and its use in calculating the volume of solids.Pascal had poor health, especially after the age of 18, and he died just two months after his 39th birthday.
Concentration Inequalities And Model Selection
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Author : Pascal Massart
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-04-26
Concentration Inequalities And Model Selection written by Pascal Massart and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-26 with Mathematics categories.
Concentration inequalities have been recognized as fundamental tools in several domains such as geometry of Banach spaces or random combinatorics. They also turn to be essential tools to develop a non asymptotic theory in statistics. This volume provides an overview of a non asymptotic theory for model selection. It also discusses some selected applications to variable selection, change points detection and statistical learning.
Selections From The Thoughts Of Pascal
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Author : Blaise Pascal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1902
Selections From The Thoughts Of Pascal written by Blaise Pascal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1902 with categories.