パンセ
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この作品を引用
- APAパスカル. (n.d.). The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal [パンセ]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/blaise-pascal/the-thoughts-of-blaise-pascal
- MLAパスカル. The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal [パンセ]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/blaise-pascal/the-thoughts-of-blaise-pascal.
- Chicagoパスカル. The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal [パンセ]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ja/works/blaise-pascal/the-thoughts-of-blaise-pascal.
SigPhi が再現している版の参照です。SigPhi はそのデジタル再現であり、出版者ではありません。版の刊行年はメタデータにないため「n.d.」とし、訳者は記録がある場合のみ記します。
何についての本か
キリスト教弁証のためにパスカルが残した断章。その書は彼の死によって書かれぬままに終わった。
背景と歴史
パスカルは一六六二年、三十九歳で世を去り、ついに書かれなかったキリスト教弁証のための断章を数百残した。仕上がった段落もあれば、三語だけのものもある。彼はそれらを束ねて紐で括っており、その括り方が意図された配列の手がかりを与えている。したがって我々が読むものはすべて編者による配列であり、版ごとに配列は異なる。断章番号が版のあいだで一致しないのはそのためで、どの版によるかを必ず記さねばならない。ここに「賭け」があり、「心には理性の知らぬ理がある」があり、考える葦としての人間があり、無限の空間の永遠の沈黙がある。注意：本目録には同一の著作の英訳が二種ある。『Pascal's Pensées』と『The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal』である。誤りではない——別々の版だ——が、知っておきたい。同じ断章が、異なる言葉と異なる番号で二度現れる。
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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.…