Pascal and the Arts of the Mind

Klappentext This book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems. Zusammenfassung This 1993 book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems in his immense and varied output. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh M. Davidson, Davidson Hugh M., Davidson Hugh M.
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032629
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03262-9
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French; Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; French, History of Ideas, France, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General, Italy, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought