Pensées
Various letters and pamphlets
PASCAL
Tours - Cattier - 1872.
- Format : In-8.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Connected.
- Collation : 471 pp.
Binding half-basane burgundy period binding. Back with four nerves. Author, title and golden finials. Insolated back. Nice fresh paper. A missing title page. A few freckles.
"Les Pensées de Blaise Pascal, a mixture of reflections and reading notes, are collected in papers found after his death. This posthumous work is mainly an apologetic, i.e. a defence of the Christian religion against sceptics and free thinkers.
Pascal's apologetic project shows that Man, in his pride and his heap of concupiscence, can only find inner peace and true happiness in God. According to him, it is the broken relationship between man and his Creator that produces in man the constant dissatisfaction with the life he leads and the desire to forget, through "entertainment", that he is mortal and in need of Grace. Pascal maintains that Man is both misery and greatness, nothing and everything, limited although aspiring to infinity. His ability to think, his desire for the unlimited and his insatiable quest for happiness are the trace left by God in his mind that he created to know and love him".
In good condition.
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