Le provinciali
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
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- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~150.000 parole · 736 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAPascal. (n.d.). The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal A new translation, with historical intro [Le provinciali]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/the-provincial-letters-of-blaise-pascal-a-new-translation-with-historical-intro
- MLAPascal. The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal A new translation, with historical intro [Le provinciali]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/the-provincial-letters-of-blaise-pascal-a-new-translation-with-historical-intro.
- ChicagoPascal. The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal A new translation, with historical intro [Le provinciali]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/blaise-pascal/the-provincial-letters-of-blaise-pascal-a-new-translation-with-historical-intro.
Riferimento all’edizione riprodotta. SigPhi è la riproduzione digitale. Anno, editore e traduttore compaiono quando noti; «n.d.» indica un anno sconosciuto.
Di che cosa tratta
Le diciotto lettere anonime con cui Pascal difese i giansenisti di Port-Royal attaccando la morale casuistica dei gesuiti, fra il 1656 e il 1657.
Contesto e storia
Uscirono clandestinamente, una alla volta, e furono un successo immediato perché Pascal fece ciò che nessuno aveva fatto: tolse una disputa teologica dal latino delle scuole e la mise in francese corrente, con ironia e in dialogo. Le prime discutono della grazia; dalla quarta in poi attacca la casistica, l'arte di trovare per ogni atto un'autorità che lo permetta, e cita i manuali gesuitici stessi perché si denuncino da soli. Furono condannate e bruciate per ordine del re, e nel 1660 il papa le mise all'Indice. È il testo in cui nasce la prosa francese moderna: Voltaire diceva che era il primo libro di genio scritto in prosa francese.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
these principles were applied were not only such as have been termed indifferent, and the criminality of which may be doubtful, or dependent on the intention of the actor: the probabilism of the Jesuits was, in fact, a systematic attempt to legalize crime, under the sanction of some grave doctor, who had found out some excuse for it; and their theory of mental reservations, and direction of the intention, was equally employed to sanctify the plainest violations of the divine law. Casuistry, it is true, has generally vibrated betwixt the extremes of impracticable severity and contemptible indulgence; but the charge against the Jesuits was, not that they softened the rigors of ascetic virtue, but that they propagated principles which sapped the foundation of all moral obligation. “They are a people,” said Boileau, “who lengthen the creed and shorten the decalogue.” Such was the community with which the Bishop of Ypres ventured to enter the lists. Already had he incurred their resentment by opposing their interests in some political negotiations; and by publishing his “Mars Gallicus,” he had mortally offended their patron, Cardinal Richelieu; but, strange to say, his deadly sin against the Society was a posthumous work. Jansen was cut off by the plague, May 8, 1638. Shortly after his decease, his celebrated work, entitled “Augustinus,” was published by his friends Fromond and Calen, to whom he had committed it on his death-bed. To the preparation of this work he may be said to have devoted his life. It occupied him twenty-two years, during which, we are told, he had ten times read through the works of Augustine (ten volumes, folio!) and thirty times collated those passages which related to Pelagianism.[16] The book itself, as the title imports, was little more than a digest of the writings of Augustine on the subject of grace.…