Pensées
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~120.000 palabras · 556 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAPascal. (n.d.). The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal [Pensées]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/blaise-pascal/the-thoughts-of-blaise-pascal
- MLAPascal. The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal [Pensées]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/blaise-pascal/the-thoughts-of-blaise-pascal.
- ChicagoPascal. The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal [Pensées]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/blaise-pascal/the-thoughts-of-blaise-pascal.
Referencia de la edición reproducida. SigPhi es la reproducción digital. Se incluyen año, editorial y traductor cuando constan; «n.d.» indica que no consta el año.
De qué trata
Los fragmentos que Pascal dejó para una apología del cristianismo que su muerte dejó sin escribir.
Contexto e historia
Pascal murió en 1662 a los treinta y nueve años dejando centenares de fragmentos escritos para una apología del cristianismo que no llegó a redactar. Algunos son párrafos acabados, otros tres palabras; los dejó atados en fajos que dan indicios del orden previsto. Todo lo que leemos, pues, es una ordenación hecha por editores, y cada edición ordena distinto —por eso los números de fragmento no coinciden entre ellas y hay que decir siempre cuál se usa. Aquí están la apuesta, el «corazón tiene razones que la razón no conoce», el hombre como caña pensante, y el silencio eterno de los espacios infinitos. AVISO: el catálogo contiene DOS traducciones inglesas de esta misma obra, «Pascal's Pensées» y «The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal». No es un error —son ediciones distintas— pero conviene saberlo: un mismo fragmento sale dos veces con palabras y numeración diferentes.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
those who seek him in sincerity to recognise him, and that he has nevertheless so concealed them that he can only be perceived by those who seek him with their whole hearts; what advantages it them, when, in their professed neglect of the search after truth, they declare that nothing reveals it to them? For the very obscurity in which they are, and for which they blame the Church, does but establish one of the points which she maintains, without affecting the other, and far from destroying, establishes her doctrine. In order to assail it they ought to urge that they have sought everywhere with all their strength, and even in that which the Church proposes for their instruction, but without avail. Did they thus speak, they would indeed assail one of her claims. But I hope here to show that no rational person can thus speak, and I am even bold to say that no one has ever done so. We know well enough how men of this temper behave. They believe they have made great efforts for their instruction, when they have spent a few hours in reading some book of Scripture, and have talked with some Ecclesiastic on the truths of the faith. Whereupon they boast that they have in vain consulted books and men. But indeed I will tell them what I have often said, that such carelessness is intolerable. We are not here dealing with the light interest of a stranger, that we should thus treat it; but with that which concerns ourselves and our all. The immortality of the soul is a matter of so great moment to us, it touches us so deeply, that we must have lost all feeling if we are careless of the truth about it. Our every action and our every thought must take such different courses, according as there are or are not eternal blessings for which to hope, that it is impossible to take a single step with sense or judgment, save in view of that point which ought to be our end and aim.…