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The PensΓ©es is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism and the PensΓ©es was in many ways his life's work. The PensΓ©es represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion. β¦
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For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the PensΓ©es, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious β¦
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