On the whole, Wood's study on sin and self-deception starting from Pascal's Pensées is very convincing ... This [is an] elegantly presented, imaginative and pithy work.

• Introduction ; 1. The Evaluative Fall: Disordered Love and the Aversion to Truth ; 2. The Reign of Duplicity: Pascal s Political Theology ; 3. The Imaginary Self in a World of Illusion: Pascal on the Fallen Human Subject ; 4. Sin and Self-Deception in Pascal s Moral Theology ; 5. On Lying to Oneself: Analytic Philosophy on Self-Deception ; 6. A Pascalian Model of Sin as Self-Deception: Morally Culpable Self-Persuasion ; 7. The Way Back: On Loving the Truth

On the whole, Wood's study on sin and self-deception starting from Pascal's Pensées is very convincing ... This [is an] elegantly presented, imaginative and pithy work.

• Introduction ; 1. The Evaluative Fall: Disordered Love and the Aversion to Truth ; 2. The Reign of Duplicity: Pascal s Political Theology ; 3. The Imaginary Self in a World of Illusion: Pascal on the Fallen Human Subject ; 4. Sin and Self-Deception in Pascal s Moral Theology ; 5. On Lying to Oneself: Analytic Philosophy on Self-Deception ; 6. A Pascalian Model of Sin as Self-Deception: Morally Culpable Self-Persuasion ; 7. The Way Back: On Loving the Truth

On the whole, Wood's study on sin and self-deception starting from Pascal's Pensées is very convincing ... This [is an] elegantly presented, imaginative and pithy work.

• Introduction ; 1. The Evaluative Fall: Disordered Love and the Aversion to Truth ; 2. The Reign of Duplicity: Pascal s Political Theology ; 3. The Imaginary Self in a World of Illusion: Pascal on the Fallen Human Subject ; 4. Sin and Self-Deception in Pascal s Moral Theology ; 5. On Lying to Oneself: Analytic Philosophy on Self-Deception ; 6. A Pascalian Model of Sin as Self-Deception: Morally Culpable Self-Persuasion ; 7. The Way Back: On Loving the Truth