Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works by Cosimo Classics

On 2007-11-13 magellan, Santa Clara, CA wrote: Please be advised that this review is only on Pascal´s Thoughts.

I got this book as part of the Great Books of the Western World set, and of the 330 odd works and 54 volumes in that august set, this book was my favorite. Not because I was religious per se, but because I enjoyed reading the thoughts of a brilliant mathematician, philosopher, and thinker who could write so clearly and concisely and discuss so many topics in brilliant fashion. Although ostensibly about Pascal´s religious convictions, he also discusses many other subjects as well. In fact, the first page of the book has a comment on women´s intuition--which Pascal believed in. Pascal is also the founder of the science of probability, which he computed based on the then current popular game of 31, not 21. And let´s not forget the famous ´Pascal´s Wager.´ Les Pensees was probably the most profound and intimate statement of his philosophy, and three centuries later it´s still worth reading today.. And summed up by saying A brief comment. Currently Blaise Pascal: Thoughts, Letters, and Minor Works has an overall rating of 10 over 10.

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Cosimo Classics claimed 1910. Contents: Thoughts on Mind and Style; The Misery of Man Without God; Of the Necessity of the Wager; Of the Means of Belief; Justice and the Reason of Effects; The Philosophers; Morality and Doctrine; Fundamentals of the Christian Religion; Perpetuity; Typology; Prophecies; Proofs of Jesus Christ; The Miracles. Various Letters. Minor Works: Epitaph of M. Pascal; Prayer; Comparison Between Christians of Early Times and Those of Today; Discourses on the Condition of the Great; On the Conversion of the Sinner; Conversation on Epictetus and Montaigne; Art of Persuasion; Discourse on the Passion of Love; Of the Geometrical Sprit; Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum; New Fragment of the Treatise on Vacuum.

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