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Author(s): Pascal, Blaise
Reader(s): Wickham, Peter
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Non-Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0322
Barcode: 9781781981603
Release Date: 09/2018
PASCAL, B.: Pensées (Unabridged)
Intended to be a defence of the Christian religion, Pensées 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, Pensées overflows with pearls of wisdom, each elusive sentence pregnant with a universe of thought.
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Disc 1
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1 | Pensées | 11:30 |
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2 | 12. Scaramouch, who only thinks of one thing. | 09:58 |
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3 | 33. Poetical beauty. As we speak of poetical… | 10:50 |
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4 | Section 2: The Misery of Man Without God | 11:10 |
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5 | If we are well informed, we understand that… | 10:58 |
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6 | 73. But perhaps this subject goes beyond… | 08:57 |
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7 | Would you not say that this magistrate… | 09:31 |
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Disc 2
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1 | 85. Things which have most hold on us… | 07:32 |
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2 | 100. Self-love. The nature of self-love… | 11:22 |
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3 | 109. When we are well we wonder… | 11:16 |
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4 | 136. A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle… | 11:52 |
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5 | 140. How does it happen that this man… | 11:04 |
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6 | 156. A brutal people for whom, when they are… | 12:07 |
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7 | Section 3: Of the Necessity of the Wager | 07:45 |
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Disc 3
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1 | We do not require great education of the mind… | 11:56 |
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2 | 195. Before entering into the proofs… | 09:25 |
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3 | 218. Dungeon. I approve of not examining… | 07:17 |
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4 | 233. Infinite – nothing. Our soul is cast into a body… | 08:52 |
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5 | There is not an infinite distance between… | 09:01 |
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6 | Section 4: Of the Means of Belief | 12:38 |
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7 | 260. They hide themselves in the press… | 13:42 |
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Disc 4
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1 | 286. Those who believe without having read… | 04:22 |
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2 | Section 5: Justice and the Reason of Effects | 10:15 |
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3 | 304. The cords which bind the respect of men… | 09:08 |
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4 | 323. What is the Ego? Suppose a man… | 12:15 |
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5 | Section 6: The Philosophers | 07:08 |
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6 | 358. Man is neither angel nor brute… | 09:38 |
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7 | 378. Scepticism. Excess, like defect of intellect… | 08:05 |
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8 | 392. Against Scepticism. It is, then, a strange… | 12:09 |
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Disc 5
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1 | 417. This twofold nature of man… | 03:16 |
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2 | Section 7: Morality and Doctrine | 07:01 |
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3 | Expect neither truth,' she says… | 11:02 |
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4 | 433. After having understood the whole nature… | 09:50 |
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5 | 435. Without this divine knowledge… | 12:50 |
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6 | 451. All men naturally hate one another. | 10:03 |
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7 | 468. No other religion has proposed to men… | 08:15 |
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8 | 482. Morality. God having made the heavens… | 10:34 |
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Disc 6
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1 | 499. External works. There is nothing… | 11:32 |
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2 | 519. John 8. Many believed him. | 13:04 |
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3 | 548. Not only do we know God… | 13:04 |
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4 | Section 8: The Fundamentals… | 08:54 |
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5 | 560. We do not understand the glorious state… | 10:36 |
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6 | 572. Hypothesis that the apostles were impostors. | 09:51 |
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7 | Section 9: Perpetuity | 05:24 |
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Disc 7
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1 | 601. The heathen religion has no foundation… | 12:53 |
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2 | 611. Republic. The Christian republic… | 11:58 |
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3 | 620. Advantages of the Jewish people. | 10:13 |
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4 | 632. On Ezra. The story that the books… | 08:36 |
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5 | Section 10: Typology | 11:13 |
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6 | 659. Types. To show that the Old Testament… | 10:51 |
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7 | 671. The Jews, who have been called to subdue… | 07:10 |
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Disc 8
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1 | How greatly then ought we to value those… | 08:32 |
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2 | 687. Types. When the word of God… | 06:52 |
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3 | Section 11: The Prophecies | 06:10 |
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4 | 706. But it was not enough that the prophecies… | 09:45 |
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5 | Isaiah 42: 'I am the Lord, and my glory…' | 11:37 |
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6 | 714. The Jews witnesses for God. | 09:28 |
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7 | Daniel 9:20. 'Whilst I was praying…' | 09:27 |
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8 | 723. Prophecies. The seventy weeks of Daniel… | 10:16 |
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Disc 9
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1 | Amos viii. The prophet, having enumerated… | 13:46 |
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2 | Section 12: Proofs of Jesus Christ | 08:17 |
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3 | 751. What do the prophets say of Jesus Christ? | 10:43 |
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4 | 769. The conversion of the heathen… | 11:52 |
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5 | 788. 'I have reserved me seven thousand.' | 11:45 |
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6 | Section 13: The Miracles | 08:24 |
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7 | 818. Having considered how it comes that… | 08:13 |
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Disc 10
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1 | 1 Kings 17. The widow to Elijah… | 10:55 |
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2 | 841. Miracles furnish the test in matters of doubt… | 10:40 |
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3 | 844. The three marks of religion… | 12:18 |
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4 | Section 14: Appendix: Polemical Fragments | 09:40 |
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5 | 870. God has not wanted to absolve without… | 10:44 |
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6 | 890. Tertullian: The Church will never be reformed. | 08:35 |
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7 | 910. Can it be anything but compliance… | 10:04 |
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Total Playing Time: 12:07:56