Pensees, Blaise Pascal
Pensees, Blaise Pascal
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Pensees

Author: Blaise Pascal

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Unabridged: 12 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 09/14/2018

Synopsis

Intended to be a defense of the Christian religion, Pensees is a penetrating collection of thoughts on faith, reason and theology. Unfinished at the time of Pascal’s death, the book consists of philosophical fragments on the ‘wretchedness’ of man and the controversial schisms of the church at the time. It includes the philosopher’s infamous wager encouraging belief over agnosticism, as well as his thoughts on numerous other topics, including the great essayist Montaigne and the Stoic teacher Epictetus. Endlessly quotable, Pensees overflows with pearls of wisdom, with each elusive sentence pregnant with a universe of thought.

About Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and theologian, as well as a writer whose brilliant command of the language marked him as a master of French prose. His early, anonymous masterpiece Les Lettres Provinciales became the model for Voltaire’s polemics. Pascal’s Pensées, his last great work, remained unfinished at the time of his death at age thirty-nine.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Valeriu on February 16, 2023

De la Blaise Pascal cititorii au reținut cîteva formule potrivite pentru conversațiile subțiri. Cea mai cunoscută dintre ele e, desigur, aceea în care omul e comparat cu o trestie firavă, pentru a-i sublinia (a cîta oară?) fragilitatea. Înțelepciunea populară a produs și alți termeni de comparație:......more

Goodreads review by David on August 31, 2016

Religious Thoughts of a Mathematician 29 August 2016 - Paris, France When I was learning French I was rather thrown by the way their numbers work after about 60, as is demonstrated by this picture, which shows how English, German, and French construct the number 98: My first thought was 'this is abso......more

Goodreads review by Roy on June 28, 2019

Pascal seems to have been born for greatness. At a young age he displayed an intense talent for mathematics, apparently deducing a few propositions of Euclid by himself; and he matured into one of the great mathematical minds of Europe, making fundamental contributions to the science of probability.......more

Goodreads review by Olga on October 27, 2022

On the human nature: 'What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm of the earth; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.' 'This twofold nature of man is so evident that some......more

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