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Title: 1839 LES PENSEES DE BLAISE PASCAL antique

Description: LES PENSEES DE BLAISE PASCAL
Paris, 1839
Hard bound, leather spine
Size 5 3/4" x 8 3/4"
500 pages
Foxing, some wear of the binding
Text in French

Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer, and Catholic theologian.
The Pensees was not completed before his death.
It was to have been a sustained and coherent examination and defense of the Christian faith, with the original title Apologie de la religion Chrétienne ("Defense of the Christian Religion").
The first version of the numerous scraps of paper found after his death appeared in print as a book in 1669 titled Pensées de M. Pascal sur la religion, et sur quelques autres sujets ("Thoughts of M. Pascal on religion, and on some other subjects") and soon thereafter became a classic.
One of the Apologie's main strategies was to use the contradictory philosophies of Pyrrhonism and Stoicism, personalized by Montaigne on one hand, and Epictetus on the other, in order to bring the unbeliever to such despair and confusion that he would embrace God.

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