Pascal and Arts of the Mind

This 1993 book examines the ways in which Pascal posed and solved intellectual problems.

List 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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Hugh M. Davidson, Hugh McCullough Davidson
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2012
• EAN: 9780521331937
• ISBN: 978-0-521-33193-7
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 222 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 538 g
• Series: Topics in Remote Sensing
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity