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  • THOUGHTS - PENSÉES
    BLAISE PASCAL
    The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pensées was in many ways his life's work. It represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion, and the concept of "Pascal's wager" stems from a portion of this work. ...

    $39.70

  • PASCAL'S PENSÉES
    BLAISE PASCAL
    Published in 1950: The Penseés is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in Go...

    $1,259.00

  • PASCAL’S PENSEES
    BLAISE PASCAL
    Pascal’s Pensées is a masterpiece, and a landmark in French literature. This is Pascal’s most influential theological work—in it he surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing; faith and reason; soul and matter; death and life; meaning and vanity—seemingly arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility, ignorance, and grace. ...

    $19.00

  • PENSÉES
    BLAISE PASCAL
    The seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician’s influential treatise in support of religion. Blaise Pascal was not a gambler, but he posited one of the most famous wagers of all time: Every man’s life is a bet against God. It is a wager that any man can win, however. Sacrifice earthly pleasures—drink, lust, sin, etc.—and a lifetime of happiness awaits, in this world or ...

    $49.00

  • GREAT SHORTER WORKS OF PASCAL
    BLAISE PASCAL
    The purpose in offering the Great Shorter Works is "to make essential classical Pascalian literature, other than the Provincial Letters and the Pensees, available to discriminating readers who might find the original texts difficult and discouraging." Preceded by a valuable introduction, forty-five letters are presented, beginning with a letter written when Pascal was a precoc...

    $461.00

  • TRATADOS DE LA DESESPERACIÓN
    PASCAL BLAISE
    Los temas abordados por Pascal son muy variados: el poder del dinero en la vida humana; los peligros derivados de la inacción y la desesperación, los beneficios de aprender a estar a solas con nuestros pensamientos, el problema de vivir de la imaginación, el abuso del entretenimiento como vía de escape. Cuestiones todas ellas encaminadas a desequilibrar la balanza a nuestro fav...
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    $395.00