Pensieri (ed. 2)
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Testo pulito · 5 passi illeggibili, esclusi dalle risposte
- Estensione:
- ~110.000 parole · 530 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAPascal. (n.d.). Pensieri (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/pascal-s-pensees
- MLAPascal. "Pensieri (ed. 2)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/pascal-s-pensees.
- ChicagoPascal. Pensieri (ed. 2). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/pascal-s-pensees.
Di che cosa tratta
I frammenti che Pascal lasciò per un'apologia del cristianesimo che la sua morte lasciò non scritta.
Contesto e storia
Pascal morì nel 1662 a trentanove anni lasciando centinaia di frammenti scritti in vista di un'apologia del cristianesimo che non giunse a comporre. Alcuni sono paragrafi compiuti, altri tre parole; li lasciò legati in fasci che danno indizi dell'ordine previsto. Tutto ciò che leggiamo è dunque un ordinamento fatto da editori, e ogni edizione ordina diversamente — perciò i numeri dei frammenti non concordano fra loro e bisogna sempre dire quale si usa. Qui sono la scommessa, il cuore che ha ragioni che la ragione non conosce, l'uomo come canna pensante, e il silenzio eterno degli spazi infiniti. AVVISO: il catalogo contiene DUE traduzioni inglesi di quest'opera medesima, «Pascal's Pensées» e «The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal». Non è un errore — sono edizioni diverse — ma conviene saperlo: uno stesso frammento vi compare due volte, con parole e numerazione differenti.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
Dutton & Co., Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A._ SBN 0-525-47018-2 INTRODUCTION It might seem that about Blaise Pascal, and about the two works on which his fame is founded, everything that there is to say had been said. The details of his life are as fully known as we can expect to know them; his mathematical and physical discoveries have been treated many times; his religious sentiment and his theological views have been discussed again and again; and his prose style has been analysed by French critics down to the finest particular. But Pascal is one of those writers who will be and who must be studied afresh by men in every generation. It is not he who changes, but we who change. It is not our knowledge of him that increases, but our world that alters and our attitudes towards it. The history of human opinions of Pascal and of men of his stature is a part of the history of humanity. That indicates his permanent importance. The facts of Pascal's life, so far as they are necessary for this brief introduction to the _Pensees_, are as follows. He was born at Clermont, in Auvergne, in 1623. His family were people of substance of the upper middle class. His father was a government official, who was able to leave, when he died, a sufficient patrimony to his one son and his two daughters. In 1631 the father moved to Paris, and a few years later took up another government post at Rouen. Wherever he lived, the elder Pascal seems to have mingled with some of the best society, and with men of eminence in science and the arts. Blaise was educated entirely by his father at home.…