02868nam a22005535i 4500 978-3-031-55626-5 DE-He213 20251030112022.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240430s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031556265 978-3-031-55626-5 10.1007/978-3-031-55626-5 doi BR118-119.2 HRCM bicssc REL067000 bisacsh QRM thema QRVG thema Nemoianu, Martin. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 76125 Pascal's God and the Fragments of the World [electronic resource] / by Martin Nemoianu. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XI, 158 p. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: God -- Chapter 3: Nature -- Chapter 4: Man -- Chapter 5: Conclusion/Appendix. In Pascal's God and the Fragments of the World, Martin Nemoianu offers a new interpretation of the thought of Blaise Pascal, drawn from the Pensées and beyond. The book takes Pascal's central theme to be the distinction - Infini rien - between the transcendent God and the created world, which, without God, would be nothing. Nemoianu identifies the distinction in Pascal, articulates it, and works through the difficulties attending the distinction's disclosure. He then considers the implications of the distinction for the nature of nature and the nature of the human being, culminating in the ideal of martyrdom. The book closes with treatment of a closely related theme: the relation between human freedom and divine grace, in the context of the vexed question of Pascal's Jansenism. Martin Nemoianu is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, USA. Theology. 69781 Catholic Church. 75021 Religion Philosophy. 68553 Metaphysics. 70839 Christian Theology. 69782 Catholicism. 75022 Philosophy of Religion. 68554 Metaphysics. 70839 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031556258 Printed edition: 9783031556272 Printed edition: 9783031556289 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55626-5 ZDB-2-REP ZDB-2-SXPR 59547 59547