Pascal and the arts of the mind

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&...

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Subtitles:Pascal & the Arts of the Mind
主要作者: Davidson, Hugh McCullough 1918- (Author)
格式: 电子 图书
语言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1993.
In:Year: 1993
丛编:Cambridge studies in French 46
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pascal, Blaise 1623-1662
Further subjects:B Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662) Knowledge and learning
B Humanities (France) History 17th century
B Pascal, Blaise
B Humanities ; France ; History ; 17th century
B Pascal, Blaise ; 1623-1662 ; Knowledge and learning
B Humanities France History, 17th century
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Parallel Edition:Non-electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9780521331937
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总结: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.
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实物描述:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 265 pages), digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:978-0-511-62762-0
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511627620