Pascal and the Arts of the Mind
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Part of Cambridge Studies in French
- Author: Hugh M. Davidson
- Date Published: October 1993
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521331937
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This 1993 book studies the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in three very different areas of his work: mathematics and mathematical physics, religious experience and theology, communication and controversy. Hugh Davidson shows how three of the classical 'liberal arts', rhetoric, dialectic and geometry, pervade Pascal's method as liberating and guiding influences in his search for truth. They appear throughout his production and are used and adapted with great skill both in his attacks on tradition in mathematics and physics and in his defences of tradition in the sphere of religion and morality. Professor Davidson throws light on both the diversity and the unity of Pascal's thought, and places it in the context of other seventeenth-century innovations in the use of traditional disciplines.
Read more- This book presents Pascal's main intellectual methods as they appear over the whole of his immense and varied output
- This has never been done before, and will be of interest to scholars of seventeenth-century literature, history, science, philosophy and religion
- The book is engagingly written, without footnotes or heavy critical apparatus
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- Date Published: October 1993
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521331937
- length: 286 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.51kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface and acknowledgments
1. Nature and the world
2. Elements, complexes and geometric
3. Multiplicity, unity and dialectic
4. Ends, means and rhetoric
5. Restatement and conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
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