The Pensees

The Pens?es (literally, "thoughts") represented a defense of the Christian religion by Blaise Pascal, the renowned 17th century philosopher and mathematician. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the Pens?es was in many ways his life's work. The concept (but not the term) "Pascal's Wager" stems from a portion of this work. The Pens?es is in fact a name given posthumously to his fragments, which he had been preparing for an Apology for the Christian Religion and which was never completed. Although the Pens?es appears to consist of ideas and jottings, some of which are incomplete, it is believed that Pascal had, prior to his death in 1662, already planned out the order of the book and had begun the task of cutting and pasting his draft notes into a coherent form. His task incomplete, subsequent editors have disagreed on the order, if any, in which his writings should be read. Those responsible for his effects, failing to recognize the basic structure of the work, handed them over to be edited, and they were published in 1669. The first English translation was made in 1688 by John Walker.

Author: Blaise Pascal

Publisher: Limovia.Net

Publication Date: May 28, 2013

Number of Pages: 498 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1783362383

ISBN-13: 9781783362387