Pensees (Thoughts) [Paperback]

Blaise Pascal (Author), W. F. Trotter (Translator)

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Digireads.com (January 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420926101
ISBN-13: 978-1420926101
Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 259 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #863,734 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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From the notes for Pascal's contemplated "Apology for the Christian Religion" the Port-Royalists compiled and edited the book known as his "Pensées" or "Thoughts." The early texts were much tampered with, and the material has been frequently rearranged; but now at last it is possible to read these fragmentary jottings as they came from the hand of their author. In spite of their incompleteness and frequent incoherence, the "Thoughts" have long held a high place among the great religious classics. Much of the theological argument implied in these utterances has little appeal to the modern mind, but the acuteness of the observation of human life, the subtlety of the reasoning, the combination of precision and fervid imagination in the expression, make this a book to which the discerning mind can return again and again for insight and inspiration.

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5.0 out of 5 stars poetic study of human nature, May 14 2009

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This book is best read in small doses or it becomes too much. The book takes the form of many small comments and analysis, a notebook written in shorthand if you will. The translation allows us a look inside one of the greatest thinkers of all time.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Great for Academic Study, Nov 3 2006

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This volume contains the raw, unedited (but translated) thoughts of Pascal. It reads sometimes like a typical first draft, albiet the first draft of a genius. However, for the average Christian wanting to learn of Pascal's perspective, the volume bogs down with logical arguments and criticisms of the day, and thus his universal themes become lost.

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