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- 英語
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- 著者自身による
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この作品を引用
- APAパスカル. (n.d.). The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal A new translation, with historical intro [プロヴァンシアル]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/blaise-pascal/the-provincial-letters-of-blaise-pascal-a-new-translation-with-historical-intro
- MLAパスカル. The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal A new translation, with historical intro [プロヴァンシアル]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/blaise-pascal/the-provincial-letters-of-blaise-pascal-a-new-translation-with-historical-intro.
- Chicagoパスカル. The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal A new translation, with historical intro [プロヴァンシアル]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/blaise-pascal/the-provincial-letters-of-blaise-pascal-a-new-translation-with-historical-intro.
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何についての本か
一六五六年から五七年にかけて、ポール・ロワイヤルのジャンセニストを擁護し、イエズス会の決疑論的道徳を攻撃した十八通の匿名書簡。
背景と歴史
ひそかに、一通ずつ世に出て、たちまち評判になった。パスカルが誰もしなかったことをしたからである。神学論争を学院ラテン語から取り出し、日常のフランス語に、皮肉をこめ、対話の形で置き直したのだ。初めの数通は恩寵を論じる。第四書簡からは決疑論——どんな行為にもそれを許す典拠を見つけ出す技術——を攻め、イエズス会自身の手引書を引いて、みずから馬脚を現させる。書簡は王命によって断罪され焼かれ、一六六〇年には教皇が禁書目録に載せた。近代フランス散文はここに始まる。ヴォルテールはこれを、フランス語の散文で書かれた最初の天才の書と呼んだ。
これは編集上の背景であり、引用できる典拠ではありません。作品本文の一節とは異なり、これらの記述はコーパスで検証できません。
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.…