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Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pense s is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes... Read Full Overview

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 Pens es, and they occupy a crucial... Read Full Overview

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 Pens es, and they occupy a crucial... Read Full Overview

"I know of no religious writer more pertinent to our time." -- T. S. Eliot, Introduction to Pens es
"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true," declared Pascal in his Pens es. "The cure for this," he explained, "is first to show that religion... Read Full Overview

En los Pensamientos est presente la reflexi n de Pascal sobre la condici n humana y las relaciones de la misma con Dios. Aunque su meditaci n no es cient fica, s lo es su constante referencia al modo de pensar. Su m todo y punto de partida es el coraz n, y lo razonable consiste... Read Full Overview

Blaise Pascal set out to produce a monumental work of Christian apologetics but his untimely death meant that only his fragmentary notes--his thoughts--would be passed on to future generations. The 'random' notes of most people would not be worth preserving; not so with Blaise... Read Full Overview

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher, who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities. The Pens es are made up of some 800 fragments, that have proven to be an enduring masterpiece since their initial publication... Read Full Overview

Los Pens es (literalmente, "pensamientos") fue una defensa de la religi n cristiana escrita por Blaise Pascal, el renombrado fil sofo y matem tico del siglo XVII. La conversi n religiosa de Pascal lo condujo a una vida de asceta, y los Pens es fueron de varias maneras la obra... Read Full Overview

Blaise Pascal set out to produce a monumental work of Christian apologetics but his untimely death meant that only his fragmentary notes--his thoughts--would be passed on to future generations. The 'random' notes of most people would not be worth preserving; not so with... Read Full Overview

It might seem that about Blaise Pascal, and about the two works on which his fame is founded, everything that there is to say had been said. The details of his life are as fully known as we can expect to know them; his mathematical and physical discoveries have been treated many... Read Full Overview

A work which is also a universe in itself, Pascal's Pensees were a success in 1670 and that success has never diminished.

Blaise Pascal (19 June 1623 - 19 August 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. 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... Read Full Overview

Pensees, or thoughts, is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal often examined the same event or example through many different lenses. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life... Read Full Overview