Pensees
'If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’\ 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 Penseés is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and—above...
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This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal s manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest to the version Pascal left behind on his death in 1662. A brief history of the text, a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a chronology of Pascal s life and works, concordances between the Sellier and Lafuma editions of the original, and an index are provided.
Translated with a Revised Introduction by A. J. Krailsheimer\ Introduction Concordance between the present edition and that of P. Sellier Select Bibliography\ Section One: Papers Classified by Pascal (Pascal's Titles)\ I. Order II. Vanity III. Wretchedness IV. Boredom V. Causes and effects VI. Greatness VII. Contradictions VIII. Diversion IX. Philosophers X. The Sovereign Good XI. APR XII. Beginning XIII. Submission and use of reason XIV. Excellence of this means of proving God XV. Transition from knowledge of man to knowledge of God XVb. Nature is corrupt XVI. Falseness of other religions XVII. Make religion attractive XVIII. Foundations XIX. Figurative law XX. Rabbinism\ Section Two: Papers Not Classified by Pascal (Translator's Titles)\ I. Various II. The Wager III. Against indifference IV. Eternal judgment. Christ.\ V. Two essential truths of Christianity VI. Advantages of Jewish people VII. Sincerity of Jewish people VIII. True Jews and true Christians have same religion IX. Particularity of Jewish people X. Perpetuity of Jewish people XI. Proofs of religion XII. Prophecies XIII. Particular prophecies XIV. Daniel XV. Isaiah and Jeremiah: Latin texts XVI. Prophecies XVII. Prophecies XVIII. Prophecies: the Jews and Christ XIX. Figurative meanings XX. Belief. Classical quotations XXI. Two types of mind XXII. Mathematical and intuitive mind XXIII. Various XXIV. Various XXV. Human nature. Style. Jesuits etc.\ XXVI. Sources of error XXVII. Diversion. Draft Prefaces XXVIII. Superiority of Christianity. Human behaviour XXIX. Relativity of human values. The Bible and its truth XXX. Habit and conversion XXXI. Figurative language in Bible. Human relations\ Section Three: Miracles\ XXXII. Opinion of Saint-Cyran XXXIII. Rules for miracles XXIV. Miracles for Port Royal against Jesuits\ Section Four: Fragments Not Found in the First Copy\ A. The Memorial B. Fragments in the Recueil Original\ The Mystery of Jesus\ C. Fragments from other sources\ Self-love\ Saying Attributed to Pascal Additional Pensées
