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Author:

Wood, William Dalton, author.

Title:

Blaise Pascal on duplicity, sin, and the fall : the secret instinct / by William Wood.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

243 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Pascal, Blaise,--1623-1662.
Apologetics--History--17th century.
Fall of man--History of doctrines--17th century.
Self-deception.
Self-deception--Christianity.--Christianity.
Sin.
Pascal, Blaise,--1623-1662--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Divinity School, 2007 under title: Searching for the secret instinct : Blaise Pascal and the philosophical analysis of self-deception. Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-236) and index.

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.

Series:

Changing paradigms in historical and systematic theology

ISBN:

9780191630385 (electronic bk.)
0191630381 (electronic bk.)
9780199656363 (cloth)
0199656363 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)853460740

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)