Blaise Pascal on duplicity, sin, and the Fall : the secret instinct /

This book explains Pascal's understanding of the cognitive consequences of the Fall. For Pascal, the self is a fiction constructed from without by an already duplicitous world. Drawing on the 'Pensées', William Wood demonstrates, by exegetical argument and constructive example, that &...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wood, William Dalton
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Series:	Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology.
Subjects:	Pascal, Blaise, > 1623-1662. Pascal, Blaise, > 1623-1662. > Pensées. Pascal, Blaise, > 1623-1662 Pensées (Pascal, Blaise) Pascal, Blaise > 1623-1662 Apologetics > History > 17th century. Fall of man > History of doctrines > 17th century. Sin, Original. Apologétique > Histoire > 17e siècle. Chute de l'homme > Histoire des doctrines > 17e siècle. Péché originel. PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > Modern. Apologetics Fall of man > History of doctrines Sin, Original Sündenfall Selbsttäuschung Arvsynden. Syndafallet. 1600-1699 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

The evaluative fall : disordered love and the aversion to truth
The reign of duplicity : Pascal's political theology
The imaginary self in a world of illusion : Pascal on the fallen human subject
Sin and self-deception in Pascal's moral theology
On lying to oneself : analytic philosophy on self-deception
A Pascalian model of sin as self-deception : morally culpable self-persuasion
The way back : on loving the truth.