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    The Pensées (Thoughts) is a collection of fragments written by the French 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious...
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    "The Project Gutenberg eBook of Pascal's Pensées, by Blaise Pascal". www.gutenberg.org. Pensées, Section III, 233. Pensées Section III note 233, Translation...
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    thinking reed. Blaise Pascal, Pensées No. 200 Pascal's most influential theological work, referred to posthumously as the Pensées ("Thoughts") is widely...
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    Pascal made her his executor, and in 1670 she published the Pensées de Pascal (Thoughts of Pascal). However, despite their efforts, the text was not printed...
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    By that time Pascal had moved on to the study of religion and philosophy, which gave us both the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées. The tercentenary...
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  • Christians as God), as is mentioned in the following quote. In his Pensées, Pascal writes: Who then will blame Christians for not being able to give reasons...
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  • Bourgeois gentilhomme (Molière), Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (Spinoza), Pensées (Pascal) 1671 in literature – Samson Agonistes (Milton), Gartlic za cas kratiti...
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  • decision theory to the belief in God is Pascal's wager, published by Blaise Pascal in his 1669 work Pensées. The application is a defense of Christianity...
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  • from prosecution for his witty, homosexually themed writings. In his Pensées, Pascal refers to him in a passage about those who renounce reason and "become...
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    Pascal and Racine, The Hidden God: A Study of Tragic Vision in the Pensées of Pascal and the Tragedies of Racine. Deus deceptor Deus otiosus Ethical monotheism...
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  • as a wager akin to Blaise Pascal's in the existence of God. "Risk", Goldmann wrote in his classic study of Pascal's Pensées and Jean Racine's Phèdre,...
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  • by René Descartes in his Meditations. Blaise Pascal outlined an approach to apologetics in his Pensées: "Men despise religion; they hate it and fear...
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  • “Bouquins”, 2 vol., 2004. Édition de Pascal, Paris, Mercure de France, 1976 Édition de Pascal, Provinciales, Pensées et opuscules divers, in collaboration...
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    Marguerite Périer (category Blaise Pascal)
    episode was the starting point of Pascal's reflections, recorded in his Pensées. Pascal addressed his seventeenth Provincial Letter to Father Annat. However...
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    France. His two capital works were a commentary on the works of Pascal, Pensées de Pascal, publiées dans le texte authentique, avec un commentaire suivi...
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  • (1712–1778) Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy L'amour-propre at Everything2.com "Dossier thématique : Le moi". Pensees de Pascal. Retrieved 4 February 2019....
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    used with regard to the texts of the Middle Ages, he published the Pensées of Pascal, revised with the original manuscript (1887–1889), and the Provinciales...
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  • work of Pascal: Modern Pascal's Studies and stereotypes (2008, in Ukr.) Pensées and Hermeneutics : philosophical significance of the new Pascal's apologetics...
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    Jean", Religion Past and Present, 2011 ISBN 9789004146662 Pascal, Les Provinciales - Pensées et opuscules divers, Lgf/Le Livre De Poche, La Pochothèque...
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    which would enable us to attribute will to it, as to the animals.", Pascal, Pensées Bartleby.com, Great Books online, Blaise Pasdcal, Thoughts Magazine...
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  • Montaigne, Saint François de Sales, Descartes, La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, 1925 Les Pensées de Pascal; étude et analyse, 1929 Montaigne; sa vie publique et privée...
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    Count of Clermont and Montferrand Blaise Pascal (1623–1662), mathematician, inventor, Christian apologist (Pensées) Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756–1794), French...
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  • that the "ultimate goal is a full-bodied humanism". Citing Blaise Pascal's Pensées: True humanism points the way toward God and acknowledges the task...
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    les dieux, Gallimard, p.1056 G. Pascal, L’Idée de philosophie chez Alain, Bordas, 1970, p.74-5. Histoire de mes pensées in Les Arts et les dieux, Gallimard...
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    desire, as advocated by Marcus Aurelius, yet Pascal calls for a curbing of desire. As he writes in his Pensées, "Nature has set us so well in the centre...
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  • published ... a pioneer work entitled: Mathématiques et mathématiciens. Pensées et curiosities. ... The second edition (in later editions there is practically...
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    be clever or stupid—as the actor sees fit to portray him. In Blaise Pascal's Pensées Section 1 Article 12, Scaramouche is described as a person "who only...
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    Later he learned about Blaise Pascal's machine when he read Pascal's Pensées. He concentrated on expanding Pascal's mechanism so it could multiply and...
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    for his works Démon de Socrate and L'Amulette de Pascal, where he stated that Socrates and Blaise Pascal were insane. Born at Gy, a small village in the...
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  • avec Paul VI (1967) Développement de la pensée occidentale (1968) Profils parallèles (1970) Newman et Renan Pascal et Leibniz Teilhard et Bergson Claudel...
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