These Are The Notes Which The Great French Mathematician And Physicist Jotted Down In Preparation For A Reasoned Defence Of Christian Belief. Their Crude Form Brings Home Pascal's Insight Into Religious Truths And The Nature Of Human Life With Peculiar And Haunting Force. [pt.] 1. Papers Classified By Pascal (pascal's Titles). Order ; Vanity ; Wretchedness ; Boredom ; Causes And Effects ; Greatness ; Contradictions ; Diversion ; Philosophers ; The Sovereign Good ; At Port Royal ; Beginning ; Submission And Use Of Reason ; Excellence Of This Means Of Proving God ; Transition From Knowledge Of Man To Knowledge Of God ; Nature Is Corrupt ; Falseness Of Other Religions ; Make Religion Attractive ; Foundations ; Figurative Law ; Rabbinism ; Perpetuity ; Proofs Of Moses ; Proofs Of Jesus Christ ; Prophecies ; Particular Figures ; Christian Morality ; Conclusion -- [pt.] 2. Papers Not Classified By Pascal (translator's Titles). Various ; The Wager ; Against Indifference ; Eternal Judgment. Christ ; Two Essential Truths Of Christianity ; Advantages Of Jewish People ; Sincerity Of Jewish People ; True Jews And True Christians Have Same Religion ; Particularity Of Jewish People ; Perpetuity Of Jewish People ; Proofs Of Religion ; Prophecies ; Particular Prophecies ; Daniel ; Isaiah And Jeremiah : Latin Texts ; Prophecies ; Prophecies ; Prophecies : The Jews And Christ ; Figurative Meanings ; Belief. Classical Quotations ; Two Types Of Mind ; Mathematical And Intuitive Mind ; Various ; Various ; Human Nature. Style. Jesuits Etc. ; Sources Of Error ; Diversion. Draft Prefaces ; Superiority Of Christianity. Human Behaviour ; Relativity Of Human Values. The Bible And Its Truth ; Habit And Conversion ; Figurative Language In Bible. Human Relations -- [pt.] 3. Miracles. Opinion Of Saint-cyran ; Rules For Miracles ; Miracles For Port Royal Against Jesuits -- [pt.] 4. Fragments Not Found In The Copy. The Memorial ; Fragments In The Recueil Original ; The Mystery Of Jesus ; Fragments From Other Sources ; Sself-love ; Sayings Attributed To Pascal ; Additional Pensées. Pascal ; Translated With An Introduction By A. J. Krailsheimer.
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