Blaise Pascal : Apologist To Skeptics

Preface

A Brief Chronology Of Blaise Pascal’s Life

The Key To Pascal’s Apologetic Pensee 308, The Three Orders

Summary Diagram Of Pascal’s Three Orders

Pascal’s Journey Through The Three Orders

Pascal’s World

Pascal And The Material Order

Pascal And The Order Of The Mind

Pascal And The Order Of Love

Pascal’s New Life

Three Orders: Keys To Pascal’s Apologetic

The Writing Of The Pensees

The Pensees: Chapters I-XI Human Misery Without God

The Pensees: Chapters XII-XIV Transition From Misery To Happiness

The Pensees: Chapters XXIII-XXVII Pascal’s Three Orders And Last Days

Pascal’s Legacy: His Thoughts-Past And Future

Pascal’s Legacy, Part II: Ontology, Selfhood, And The Church

Pascal’s Legacy, Part I: Epistemology

Endnotes

Additional Info
This book focuses on Blaise Pascal’s Pensees, an apology for Christianity, which is regarded as Pascal’s crowning achievement. Professor Charles Sherrard MacKenzie maintains that the lens best enabling us to understand Pensees is his fragment on the three orders of life: mental, material, and spiritual. This analysis also highlights the frustrations Pascal encountered while making scientific discoveries, as part of his quest for certainty in his and others’ faith.