Pascal's Pensees: Audiobook and PDF
Have read any of Blais Pascal's Pensees?
There is much wisdom in his writings.
Pensees was posthumously organized and published. His writings went into great detail about the contours of the thinker's position on his faith.
Below is the audiobook and a PDF of the book for you to listen too or read.
Blaise Pascal
"Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher who laid the foundation for the modern theory of probabilities.
Who Was Blaise Pascal?
In the 1640s mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline, an early calculator, and further validated Evangelista Torricelli's theory concerning the cause of barometrical variations. In the 1650s, Pascal laid the foundation of probability theory with Pierre de Fermat and published the theological work Les Provinciales, a groundbreaking series of letters that defended his Jansenist faith. Pascal is also widely known for his body of notes posthumously released as the Pensées.
Early Life
Pascal, born on June 19, 1623, in Clermont-Ferrand, France, was the third of four children and only son to Etienne and Antoinette Pascal. His mother passed away when Pascal was just a toddler and he became exceptionally close to his two sisters Gilberte and Jacqueline. His father, Etienne, was a tax collector and talented mathematician..." from the article: Blaise Pascal
Video from Audio Books
"Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section (Thought #72), Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French language. Will Durant, in his 11-volume, comprehensive The Story of Civilization series, hailed it as "the most eloquent book in French prose." In Pensées, Pascal surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing, faith and reason, soul and matter, death and life, meaning and vanity—seemingly arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility, ignorance, and grace. Rolling these into one he develops Pascal's Wager. (Summary from Wikipedia)
Genre(s): Philosophy, Religion
Language: English (FULL Audiobook)" from the video introduction
Pascal's Pensees PDF (link) PDF from the library of Project Gutenberg
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