{"product_id":"penses-isbn-9780140446456","title":"Pensées","description":"\u003cb\u003eA collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays from a gifted French philosopher \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, Blaise Pascal was a skilled mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The\u003ci\u003e Penseés\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection in which Pascal 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 who can be transformed through faith in God's grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePenguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Pensees - Blaise Pascal       \u003ci\u003eTranslated with a Revised Introduction by A. J. Krailsheimer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eConcordance between the present edition and that of P. Sellier\u003cbr\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection One: Papers Classified by Pascal (Pascal's Titles)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Order\u003cbr\u003eII. Vanity\u003cbr\u003eIII. Wretchedness\u003cbr\u003eIV. Boredom\u003cbr\u003eV. Causes and effects\u003cbr\u003eVI. Greatness\u003cbr\u003eVII. Contradictions\u003cbr\u003eVIII. Diversion\u003cbr\u003eIX. Philosophers\u003cbr\u003eX. The Sovereign Good\u003cbr\u003eXI. APR\u003cbr\u003eXII. Beginning\u003cbr\u003eXIII. Submission and use of reason\u003cbr\u003eXIV. Excellence of this means of proving God\u003cbr\u003eXV. Transition from knowledge of man to knowledge of God\u003cbr\u003eXVb. Nature is corrupt\u003cbr\u003eXVI. Falseness of other religions\u003cbr\u003eXVII. Make religion attractive\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. Foundations\u003cbr\u003eXIX. Figurative law\u003cbr\u003eXX. Rabbinism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Two: Papers Not Classified by Pascal (Translator's Titles)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI. Various\u003cbr\u003eII. The Wager\u003cbr\u003eIII. Against indifference\u003cbr\u003eIV. Eternal judgment. Christ.\u003cbr\u003eV. Two essential truths of Christianity\u003cbr\u003eVI. Advantages of Jewish people\u003cbr\u003eVII. Sincerity of Jewish people\u003cbr\u003eVIII. True Jews and true Christians have same religion\u003cbr\u003eIX. Particularity of Jewish people\u003cbr\u003eX. Perpetuity of Jewish people\u003cbr\u003eXI. Proofs of religion\u003cbr\u003eXII. Prophecies\u003cbr\u003eXIII. Particular prophecies\u003cbr\u003eXIV. Daniel\u003cbr\u003eXV. Isaiah and Jeremiah: Latin texts\u003cbr\u003eXVI. Prophecies\u003cbr\u003eXVII. Prophecies\u003cbr\u003eXVIII. Prophecies: the Jews and Christ\u003cbr\u003eXIX. Figurative meanings\u003cbr\u003eXX. Belief. Classical quotations\u003cbr\u003eXXI. Two types of mind\u003cbr\u003eXXII. Mathematical and intuitive mind\u003cbr\u003eXXIII. Various\u003cbr\u003eXXIV. Various\u003cbr\u003eXXV. Human nature. Style. Jesuits etc.\u003cbr\u003eXXVI. Sources of error\u003cbr\u003eXXVII. Diversion. Draft Prefaces\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII. Superiority of Christianity. Human behaviour\u003cbr\u003eXXIX. Relativity of human values. The Bible and its truth\u003cbr\u003eXXX. Habit and conversion\u003cbr\u003eXXXI. Figurative language in Bible. Human relations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Three: Miracles\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eXXXII. Opinion of Saint-Cyran\u003cbr\u003eXXXIII. Rules for miracles\u003cbr\u003eXXIV. Miracles for Port Royal against Jesuits\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSection Four: Fragments Not Found in the First Copy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA. The Memorial\u003cbr\u003eB. Fragments in the \u003ci\u003eRecueil Original\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Jesus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eC. Fragments from other sources\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf-love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaying Attributed to Pascal\u003cbr\u003eAdditional \u003ci\u003ePensées\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlaise Pascal\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Clermont in 1623, the son of a government official. During his short life he left his mark on mathematics, physics, religious controversy and literature. A convert to Jansenism, he engaged with gusto in a controversy with the Jesuits, which gave rise to his \u003ci\u003eLettres Provinciales\u003c\/i\u003eon which, with the \u003ci\u003ePensées\u003c\/i\u003e, his literary fame chiefly rests. A remarkable stylist, he is regarded by many as the greatest of French prose artists. He died, after a long illness, in 1662.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. A.J. Krailsheimer\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1921 and was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1957 until his retirement in 1988. His publications are \u003ci\u003eStudies in Self-Interest \u003c\/i\u003e(1963), \u003ci\u003eRabelais and the Franciscans \u003c\/i\u003e(1965), \u003ci\u003eThree Conteurs of the Sixteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), \u003ci\u003eRabelais (1967)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA. J. de Rancé, Abbot of La Trappe\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), \u003ci\u003ePascal\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), \u003ci\u003eConversion\u003c\/i\u003e (1980),\u003ci\u003e Letters of A. J. de Rancé\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eRancé and the Trappist Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003eCorrespondance de Rancé\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). He has also translated Flaubert’s \u003ci\u003eBouvard and Pécuchet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalammbo\u003c\/i\u003e and Pascal’s \u003ci\u003eThe Provincial Letters\u003c\/i\u003e for the Penguin Classics.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299879375077,"sku":"NP9780140446456","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140446456.jpg?v=1767734622","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/penses-isbn-9780140446456","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}