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Blaise Pascal, translated by W. F. Trotter.Pensees (June 30, 2009)

LibriVox recording of Pensees by Blaise Pascal, translated by W. F. Trotter, read by dexter, proofed by HeartofTexas, and produced by Karen Merline.

Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section (Thought #72), Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French language. Will Durant, in his 11-volume, comprehensive The Story of Civilization series, hailed it as "the most eloquent book in French prose." In Pensées, Pascal surveys several philosophical paradoxes: infinity and nothing, faith and reason, soul and matter, death and life, meaning and vanity—seemingly arriving at no definitive conclusions besides humility, ignorance, and grace. Rolling these into one he develops Pascal's Wager. (Summary from Wikipedia)

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Artist/Composer: Blaise Pascal, translated by W. F. Trotter.
Date: 2009-06-30
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; audio books; religion; spirituality

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Audio Files	128Kbps MP3	Ogg Vorbis	64Kbps MP3
00: Introductory Note	3.60 MB	2.56 MB	1.80 MB
01: I - Thoughts on Mind and on Style	27 MB	19 MB	13 MB
02: II - The Misery of Man without God, part 1	45 MB	32 MB	23 MB
03: II - The Misery of Man without God, part 2	37 MB	26 MB	18 MB
04: III - Of the Necessity of the Wager	41 MB	29 MB	21 MB
05: IV - Of the Means of Belief	26 MB	18 MB	13 MB
06: V - Justice and the Reason of Effects	28 MB	19 MB	14 MB
07: VI - The Philosophers	36 MB	25 MB	18 MB
08: VII - Morality and Doctrine, part 1	33 MB	23 MB	16 MB
09: VII - Morality and Doctrine (part 2)	29 MB	21 MB	15 MB
10: VII - Morality and Doctrine, part 3	31 MB	22 MB	15 MB
11: VIII - The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion	24 MB	17 MB	12 MB
12: IX - Perpetuity	42 MB	30 MB	21 MB
13: X - Typology	39 MB	28 MB	19 MB
14: XI - The Prophecies, Part 1	26 MB	18 MB	13 MB
15: XI - The Prophecies, part 2	32 MB	22 MB	16 MB
16: XII - Proofs of Jesus Christ	40 MB	29 MB	20 MB
17: XIII - The Miracles	47 MB	34 MB	23 MB
18: XIV - Appendix: Polemical Fragments	34 MB	24 MB	17 MB

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