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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: thinking reed
    sub title: Pascal's voice, yesterday and today
  name:
    name part: Williams, Stephen N.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: oru
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 184 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Blaise Pascal (1623-62) was a provocative and important thinker. Both the range and the influence of his work is immense. His Pensees ("Thoughts"), unfinished and composed of fragments, is widely regarded as a classic of Christian apologetics. In this volume, the reader is introduced to this work, with a view to both describing what Pascal says and assessing its present value. After introducing the man and his life, Pascal's views on reason and the heart, and on human wretchedness and greatness, are discussed before asking in a final chapter, "Would you bet on God?" An appendix treats Pascal and modernity. Four hundred years on, Pascal's voice can still be heard. Four hundred years on, we still need to heed it. Pascal does not simply speak from the mind to the mind. He speaks as a person to persons.
  table of contents: Something about Pascal -- Reason -- Heart -- Wretchedness -- Greatness -- Would you bet on God -- Appendix : Three men at the portal of modernity.
  note: Stephen N. Williams.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pascal, Blaise
      name part: 1623-1662
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Pascal, Blaise
      name part: 1623-1662
    topic: Influence
  subject:
    topic: Apologetics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophers
    geographic: France
    temporal: 17th century
    genre: Biography
  classification: BX4735.P26 W55 2023
  identifier: 1666751499
  identifier: 9781666751499
  identifier: 9781666751505
  identifier: 1666751502
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230517
    record change date: 20231207161409.2
    record identifier: in00004727113