Blaise Pascal on duplicity, sin, and the Fall the secret instinct
Title:
Blaise Pascal on duplicity, sin, and the Fall the secret instinct
Author:
Wood, William Dalton.
ISBN:
9780191630385
9781299674424
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 243 pages).
Series:
Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology
Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology.
Contents:
The evaluative fall : disordered love and the aversion to truth -- The reign of duplicity : Pascal's political theology -- The imaginary self in a world of illusion : Pascal on the fallen human subject -- Sin and self-deception in Pascal's moral theology -- On lying to oneself : analytic philosophy on self-deception -- A Pascalian model of sin as self-deception : morally culpable self-persuasion -- The way back : on loving the truth.
Abstract:
This book explains Pascal's understanding of the cognitive consequences of the Fall. For Pascal, the self is a fiction constructed from without by an already duplicitous world. Drawing on the 'Pensées', William Wood demonstrates, by exegetical argument and constructive example, that 'Pascalian' theology is both possible and fruitful.
Electronic Access:
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