Bücher von Blaise Pascal

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»Ich werde hier meine Gedanken ordnungslos aufschreiben ... Das ist die wahre Ordnung ...« So beginnt Pascal sein Hauptwerk, dessen System die Systemlosigkeit ist. In brillanter Prosa - von aphoristischen Einzelsätzen bis zu ausgefeilten Essays - behandelt er Themen wie Ordnung, Eitelkeit, Elend, Langeweile, Ursachen und Wirkungen, Widersprüche, Zerstreuung, das höchste Gut, Natur, vor allem aber Religion und christliche Moral.Die vorliegende Gesamtausgabe fußt auf Pascals Originalsammlung und eigenen Abschriften, die inzwischen als verbindliche Textgrundlage für jede wissenschaftliche Edition gelten.

One of the world's great minds ruminates on God, the world and reason in jewel-like fragments of thought.

The Provincial letters are a series of eighteen letters written by French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal. Written in the midst of the formulary controversy between the Jansenists and the Jesuits, they are a defense of the Jansenist Antoine Arnauld from Port-Royal-des-Champs, a friend of Pascal who in 1656 was condemned by the Faculté de Théologie at the Sorbonne in Paris for views that were claimed to be heretical. The First letter is dated January 23, 1656 and the Eighteenth March 24, 1657. A fragmentary Nineteenth letter is frequently included with the other eighteen. In these letters, Pascal humorously attacked casuistry, a rhetorical method often used by Jesuit theologians, and accused Jesuits of moral laxity. Being quickly forced underground while writing the Provincial Letters, Pascal pretended they were reports from a Parisian to a friend in the provinces, on the moral and theological issues then exciting the intellectual and religious circles in the capital. In the letters, Pascal's tone combines the fervor of a convert with the wit and polish of a man of the world. Their style meant that, quite apart from their religious influence, the Provincial Letters were popular as a literary work. Adding to that popularity was Pascal's use of humor, mockery, and satire in his arguments. The letters also influenced the prose of later French writers like Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Brilliantly written by Pascal, the Provincial Letters would not have been possible without the work of theologians from Port-Royal; indeed, most of the arguments Pascal deployed were already to be found in Arnauld's Théologie morale des Jésuites, something which led the Jesuit Nicolas Caussin to reply to Pascal's perceived libel. Pascal's main source on Jesuit casuistry was Antonio Escobar's Summula casuum conscientiae (1627), several propositions of which would be later condemned by Pope Innocent XI. Paradoxically, the Provincial Letters were both a success and a defeat: a defeat, on the political and theological level, and a success on the moral level. Thus, King Louis XIV ordered that the book be shredded and burnt in 1660. The final letter from Pascal, in 1657, had defied the Pope himself, provoking Alexander VII to condemn the letters. But that didn't stop most of educated France from reading them. Moreover, even Pope Alexander, while publicly opposing them, nonetheless was persuaded by Pascal's arguments. Just a few years later, Alexander condemned "laxity" in the church and ordered a revision of casuistical texts.

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For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pensees, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing.

Blaise Pascal set out to produce a monumental work of Christian apologetics but his untimely death meant that only his fragmentary notes--his thoughts--would be passed on to future generations. The 'random' notes of most people would not be worth preserving; not so with Blaise Pascal. Not only do his 'thoughts' continue to provoke new insights into the Christian religion, but they were praised as among the finest in French literature. This edition comes with an index for tracking down concepts and tracing Pascal's sophisticated reasoning throughout the volume.

Les Trois discours sur la condition des grands sont un ensemble de discours éducatifs tenus par Blaise Pascal au futur duc de Chevreuse Charles-Honoré d'Albert, probablement vers 1660. Ils sont reconstitués et retranscris par Pierre Nicole dans son ouvrage De l'éducation d'un prince, publié en 1670.Dans un premier discours, Pascal affirme que la condition des grands n'est pas liée à des qualités naturelles, mais à une suite de hasard établie par la coutume : un grand doit donc avoir une « double-pensée », en se comportant extérieurement comme le veut son rang, mais en sachant par-devers lui qu'il n'est pas intrinsèquement supérieur aux autres hommes. Dans un second, il dit qu'il existe des « grandeurs d'établissement » et des « grandeurs naturelles » : on doit le respect aux grandeurs d'établissement, même si elles sont seulement le fruit de la coutume, car le respect des conventions établies par les hommes est nécessaire ; un grand ne peut toutefois pas exiger qu'on admire chez lui des grandeurs naturelles (qui sont le fait du talent ou de la vertu) s'il n'en possède pas, car cela serait commettre une injustice en confondant les deux sortes de grandeurs. Enfin, dans un troisième discours, Pascal établit quelles relations un grand entretient avec son entourage : ce sont celles d'un « roi de concupiscence », qui possède ce que désire ce dernier ; pour ne pas se comporter en tyran, il doit mettre seulement son plaisir à satisfaire cette concupiscence.Les Trois discours sur la condition des grands sont le seul texte issu de Pascal, exclusivement consacré à la politique. On y retrouve des thèmes abordés dans les Pensées, tel le caractère conventionnel des coutumes. En leur découvrant leur vraie nature, Pascal cherche à empêcher les grands de se comporter en tyrans, tout en évitant le chaos qui résulterait d'une remise en cause de leur rang par le peuple. Il s'agit toutefois seulement pour lui d'un pis-aller : la véritable grandeur consiste à suivre la voie de DieuEdition suivie de la Prière pour demander à Dieu le bon usage des maladies

The purpose in offering the Great Shorter Works is ""to make essential classical Pascalian literature, other than the Provincial Letters and the Pensees, available to discriminating readers who might find the original texts difficult and discouraging.""Preceded by a valuable introduction, forty-five letters are presented, beginning with a letter written when Pascal was a precocious twenty and ending with his will at thirty-eight.These remarkable letters, covering a nineteen-year period of intense activity, reflect the variety of Pascal''s interests. For this reason, among others, they are of value, not only to those who are interested in Christianity, but also to those who are interested in physics, or mathematics, or philosophy.Blaise Pascal bequeathed to the world many tangible legacies, including the calculating machine, the barometer, the hydraulic press, and the omnibus. In his letters he has bequeathed that quality of mind and spirit which surpasses the tangible and illumines life.Emile Cailliet was born and educated in France and became an American citizen in 1937. He was on the faculties of the University of Pennsylvania, Scripps College, and Wesleyan University. He had been elected to the chair of Stuart Professor of Christian Philosophy at Princeton Theological Seminary. He held the degrees of Litt.D. cum laude from the University of Montpellier and Th.D. summa cum laude from the University of Strasbourg.