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	Pensees Blaise Pascal 0486432556 Nov 2003 Paperback ·
Book Description "I know of no religious writer more pertinent to our time."—T. S. Eliot, Introduction to Pensées Intended to prove that religion is not contrary to reason, Pascal's Pensées rank among the liveliest and most eloquent defenses of Christianity. Motivated by the seventeenth-century view of the supremacy of human reason, Pascal (1623–1662) had intended to write an ambitious apologia for Christianity in which he argued the inability of reason to address metaphysical problems. His untimely death prevented the work's completion, but the fragments published posthumously in 1670 as Pensées remain a vital part of religious and philosophical literature. W. F. Trotter translation. Introduction by T. S. Eliot.


	Christianity for Modern Pagans: Pascal's Pensees Peter Kreeft 0898704529 October 1997 Paperback ·
Book Description Peter Kreeft believes that Blaise Pascal is the first post-medieval apologist. No writer in history, claims Kreeft, is a more effective Christian apologist and evangelist to today's uprooted, confused, secularized pagans (inside and outside the Church) than Pascal. He was a brilliant man--a great scientist who did major work in physics and mathematics, as well as an inventor--whom Kreeft thinks was three centuries ahead of his time. His apologetics found in his Pensées are ideal for the modern, sophisticated skeptic. Kreeft has selected the parts of Pascal's Pensées which best respond to the needs of modern man, and offers his own comments on applying Pascal's wisdom to today's problems. Addressed to modern skeptics and unbelievers, as well as to modern Christians for apologetics and self-examination, Pascal...


	Pensees Blaise Pascal 0140446451 May 2003 Paperback ·
From AudioFile After the death of French scientist/polemicist Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), his friends discovered among his papers a variety of jottings on religion. These they arranged and published as PENSÉES ("Thoughts"), which has come down to us as the liveliest, most eloquent apology of Christianity ever written. You wouldn't know it by the indifferent reading of William Sutherland. He reads with comprehension of individual lines and phrases, but with no sense of how they relate to one another. Y.R. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition. Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French


	Pens'ees and Other Writings Blaise Pascal 0192836552 June 1999 Paperback ·
Book Description For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pensees, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. This translation is the only one based on the Pensees as Pascal left them. It includes the principal dossiers classified by Pascal, as well as the essential portion of his important Writings on Grace. Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


	Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk Peter L. Bernstein 0471295639 September 1998 Paperback ·
Book Review With the stock market breaking records almost daily, leaving longtime market analysts shaking their heads and revising their forecasts, a study of the concept of risk seems quite timely. Peter Bernstein has written a comprehensive history of man's efforts to understand risk and probability, beginning with early gamblers in ancient Greece, continuing through the 17th-century French mathematicians Pascal and Fermat and up to modern chaos theory. Along the way he demonstrates that understanding risk underlies everything from game theory to bridge-building to winemaking. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. From Publishers Weekly Risk management, which assumes that future risks can be understood, measured and to some extent predicted, is the focus of this solid,...


	Devotional Classics: Selected Readings for Individuals and Groups Richard J. Foster (Editor) 0060777508 June 2005 Paperback ·
Book Description A New, Expanded Edition of RenovarÉ's Classic Companion to the Devotional LifeUpdated to incorporate all six traditions, or "streams," that comprise a healthy and holistic life of faith, these fifty-two selections have been organized to introduce the reader to the great devotional writers over the course of one year. Edited by James Bryan Smith, each reading is accompanied by an introduction and meditation by Richard J. Foster. In addition, each entry includes a related biblical passage, discussion questions, and individual and group exercises.With devotional readings in1. The Prayer-Filled Life 2. The Virtuous Life 3. The Spirit-Empowered Life 4. The Compassionate Life 5. The Word-Centered Life 6. The Sacramental Life Foster and Smith sift through works from the great spiritual...


	The Physics of Chance Charles Ruhla 0198539770 Dec 1992 Paperback ·
Book Description This work offers a clear, much-needed introduction to the ideas of randomness that are central to modern physics. These are the concepts that have been instrumental in overthrowing the notion of the classical "clock-work" universe of earlier centuries. The author shows how the laws of probability and statistics were developed by such mathematicians as Fermat, Pascal, and Gauss, and how they received their first major application in physics in the kinetic theory of gases developed by Maxwell and Boltzmann. Here the use of statistics was necessary because the number of particles involved is too great for a deterministic calculation. But soon the mathematician and physicist Poincare demonstrated the unpredictability of certain systems containing only a small number of bodies, because of extreme sensitivity to...


	Pascal Bernard Rogers 0415923980 July 1999 Paperback ·
From Library Journal Once in a while, a publication comes along that on first sight seems oddly out of place but on second viewing is admirably suited to its purpose. This little series of biographical summaries of the thoughts of 24 Western philosophers from Democritus to Derrida is admirable not only for its reasonable price but even more for the intelligence and clarity of the writing. Each volume has been prepared by an expert in the subject, and the result is a series of well-drawn and exceptionally useful pocket-size (4.5 x 7 inches) sketches of major figures in the history of Western thought. The level is such that no special background in philosophy is required to understand the concepts discussed. Each volume also contains a short bibliography, some of which refer to electronic journals or web sites. Most of the individuals...


	The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal 0313205302 Dec 1978 Hardcover ·
Book Description Pascal was a scientist and man of the world who came to be a passionately devout Christian. The fragments of his great defense of Christianity, left unfinished at his death in 1662, survive in the form of the Pensees. This series of brief, dramatic notes on his religious convictions are here translated into English. These "thoughts" expose Pascal's vision of the world and display powerful reasoning and a profound faith. Language Notes Text: English, French (translation)


	The Book of Jesus: A Treasury of the Greatest Stories and Writings About Christ Calvin Miller (Editor) 0760766185 August 2005 Hardcover ·



	1001 Smartest Things Ever Said Steven D. Price 1592287883 April 2005 Paperback ·
Review "This is a book full of smart things that I'm sure I'll keep handy in the coming months and years."


	Pensees Et Provinciales Choisies/Selected Pensees And Provincial Letters Blaise Pascal 0486433641 July 2004 (Paperback) - French ·



	The Cambridge Companion to Pascal Nicholas Hammond 0521006112 Apr 2003 Paperback ·
Review 'A treasure trove for the Pascal enthusiast.' Scientific and Medical Network Review Review "...an indispensable handbook of English-language Pascal scholarship." Philosophy in Review See all Editorial Reviews


	Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart Marvin R. O'Connell 0802801587 January 1997 Textbook Paperback ·
From Library Journal O'Connell (emeritus, history, Notre Dame) creates a context for understanding brilliant mathematician and mystic Blaise Pascal. The physical and intellectual environment of Pascal's 17th-century France come alive in this well-written work. Especially effective is O'Connell's analysis of the Jansenist controversy, in which Pascal was deeply involved and which profoundly influenced his thought. Although the book contains no footnotes, an eight-page bibliographic essay indicates that the author drew on an array of secondary sources as well as the standard published primary sources. Recommended for collections in religion and in French history.?Linda V. Carlisle, Southern Illinois Univ., EdwardsvilleCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.


	Designing Experiments and Games of Chance: The Unconventional Science of Blaise Pascal William R. Shea 0881353760 January 2003 Hardcover ·



	The Cambridge Companion to Pascal Nicholas Hammond 052180924X Apr 2003 Hardcover ·
Review 'A treasure trove for the Pascal enthusiast.' Scientific and Medical Network Review Review "...an indispensable handbook of English-language Pascal scholarship." Philosophy in Review See all Editorial Reviews


	On Pascal Douglas R. Groothuis 0534583911 June 2002 Paperback ·
Book Description ON PASCAL, like other titles in the Wadsworth Philosopher's Series, offers a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to this philosopher's most important ideas. Presenting the most important insights of well over a hundred seminal philosophers in both the Eastern and Western traditions, the Wadsworth Philosophers Series contains volumes written by scholars noted for their excellence in teaching and for their well-versed comprehension of each featured philosopher's major works and contributions. These titles have proven valuable in a number of ways. Serving as standalone texts when tackling a philosophers' original sources or as helpful resources for focusing philosophy students' engagements with these philosopher's often conceptually daunting works, these titles have also gained extraordinary popularity with a lay...


	Pensees Blaise Pascal 087220717X March 2005 Paperback ·
Book Description Roger Ariew masterfully renders the oddities of 17th-century French vocabulary and syntax in this eloquent and philosophically astute translation—the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal’s manuscript, widely accepted as the version closest to what Pascal intended. Ariew provides a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a chronology of Pascal’s life and works, a brief history of the text, concordances between the Sellier and Lafuma editions of the original, and an index. About the Author Roger Ariew is Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.