Pascal and the Arts of the Mind
Hugh M. Davidson
This 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, both in his attacks on and in his defenses of tradition. Professor Davidson throws new 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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Year:
2006
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
288
ISBN 10:
0521032628
ISBN 13:
9780521032629
Series:
Cambridge Studies in French
File:
PDF, 5.99 MB
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english, 2006