Pensées
"Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Pensees is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but also as a being whose existence can be transformed through faith in God's grace. This masterly translation conveys Pascal's disarmingly personal tone and captures all the fire and passion of the original. Also contained in this volume are a comparison between different editions, appendices and a bibliography.". -- Back Cover
Print Book, English, 1995
Revised edition View all formats and editions
Penguin Books ; Penguin Books USA, London, New York, 1995
Apologetic writings
xxxii, 333 pages ; 20 cm.
9780140446456, 0140446451
34283358
Section one: Papers classified by Pascal (Pascal's titles)
Order
Vanity
Wretchedness
Boredom
Causes and effects
Greatness
Contradictions
Diversion
Philosophers
The sovereign good
APR
Beginning
Submission and use of reason
Excellence of this means of proving God
Transition from knowledge of man to knowledge of God
Nature is corrupt
Falseness of other religions
Make religion attractive
Foundations
Figurative law
Rabbinism
Perpetuity
Proofs of Moses
Proofs of Jesus Christ
Prophecies
Particular figures
Christian morality
Conclusion
Section two: Papers not classified by Pascal (translator's titles)
Various
The wager
Against indifference
Eternal judgment, Christ
Two essential truths of Christianity
Advantages of Jewish people
Sincerity of Jewish people
True Jews and true Christians have same religion
Particularity of Jewish people
Perpetuity of Jewish people
Proofs of religion
Prophecies
Particular prophecies
Daniel
Isaiah and Jeremiah: Latin texts
Prophecies
Prophecies
Prophecies: the Jews and Christ
Figurative meanings
Belief. Classical quotations
Two types of mind
Mathematical and intuitive mind
Various
Various
Human nature. Style. Jesuits etc
Sources of error
Diversion. Draft prefaces
Superiority of Christianity. Human behaviour
Relativity of human values. The Bible and its truth
Habit and conversion
Figurative language in Bible. Human relations
Section three: Miracles
Opinion of Saint-Cyran
Rules for miracles
Miracles for Port Royal against Jesuits
Section four: Fragments not found in the first copy
The memorial
Fragments in the Recueil Original
The Mystery of Jesus
Fragments from other sources
Self-love
Sayings attributed to Pascal
Additional Pensees