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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2010
      September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511627620
      9780521331937
      9780521032629
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627620
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 286 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.374kg, 288 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in French (46)
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in French (46)
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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.

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