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XVII век в раздираемой экономическими, политическими и гуманитарными противоречиями Франции был ознаменован расцветом искусства и литературы, в том числе и моралистической. Успех последней был, несомненно, связан не только с неблагополучным

Book Description1910. Contents: Thoughts on Mind and Style; The Misery of Man Without God; Of the Necessity of the Wager; Of the Means of Belief; Justice and the Reason of Effects; The Philosophers; Morality and Doctrine; Fundamentals of the

Французская литература XVII в. дала миру произведения писателей-моралистов Франсуа де Ларошфуко, Блеза Паскаля и Жана де Лабрю, составившие эту книгу.

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in Human Happiness are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life ? or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best.

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