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Pensées - Blaise Pascal
Pensées
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ISBN: 9782266147835 (2266147838)
Publisher: Pocket Books
Pages no: 592
Edition language: French
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Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
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4.0 Religious Thoughts of a Mathematician
When I was learning French I was rather thrown by the way their numbers work after about 60, as is demonstrated by this picture, which shows how English, German, and French construct the number 98: My first thought was 'this is absolutely ridiculous, how on Earth could the French have produc...
Tolle Lege!.
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3.0 Pensées
There are multiple levels to this book. It works best when he's sharing his wisdom by using aphorisms (short pithy and usually wise statements ). They're so many pearls within this book that it wouldn't be worthwhile to highlight with a highlighter because you would highlight over half of the book. ...
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4.0 Pensees (Penguin Classics)
Next in my series of personal enrichment (leveling-up)...Pascal-- I'll wager you've heard of this one.Like Descartes, Pascal does a great job of bridging the philosophy of the greeks with christianity (although Pascal slams Descartes for not including more christian thought)So I liked this one. I fo...
Reading Adler's List
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3.0 Pensees the Provincial Letters
Much like Molière, Pascal’s influence is probably best appreciated if read in French. His style, satire and wit are heavily commented on and, since I don’t read French, I’m sure I’m missing much of what makes Pascal influential.Pensees is the skeleton of a book. Never published during Pascal’s lif...
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
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5.0 A collection of theological sayings
Blaise Pascal is an enigma. He is a Catholic who in his book writes like an evangelical (or, more to the point, protestant as they were in those days). He is also a scientist/mathematician/engineer who writes what I must admit is an incredibly intense theological treatise. Well, not so much a treati...
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