The Secret of Pascal

In this 1941 text Stewart focuses on three aspects of Pascal's genius: his skill in debate, his moral teaching, and his poetic mastery of language.

H. F. Stewart (Author)

9780521237802, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 9 June 2011

120 pages
20.3 x 12.7 x 0.7 cm, 0.14 kg

Published in 1941, The Secret of Pascal was intended by its author, H. F. Stewart, to be a complement to his previous study, The Holiness of Pascal, which contained the Hulsean Lectures delivered before the University of Cambridge in 1914–5. Having already examined Pascal's religious thought and attitude in those lectures, Stewart here focuses on three other aspects of Pascal's genius: his skill in debate, his moral teaching, and his poetic mastery of language. By addressing these subjects apart from questions of philosophy or religion, Stewart illuminates some of the subtler aspects of Pascal's person which contributed to the strength and longevity of his influence.

Frontispiece
Preface
1. Pascal in debate
2. Pascal as moralist
3. Pascal as poet
Notes
List of books
Index.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]