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Pensées
by Blaise Pascal, translated by W. F. Trotter.
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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Total running time: 11:15:17
Read by dexter
Latin passages read by Leni
Proofed by HeartofTexas
Produced by Karen Merline
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- 00: Introductory Note – 00:03:56
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[ogg vorbis - 2.56MB] - 01: I – Thoughts on Mind and on Style – 00:29:03
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[ogg vorbis - 19MB] - 02: II – The Misery of Man without God, part 1 – 00:49:09
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[ogg vorbis - 32MB] - 03: II – The Misery of Man without God, part 2 – 00:40:16
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[ogg vorbis - 26MB] - 04: III – Of the Necessity of the Wager – 00:44:59
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[ogg vorbis - 29MB] - 05: IV – Of the Means of Belief – 00:28:30
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[ogg vorbis - 18MB] - 06: V – Justice and the Reason of Effects – 00:30:14
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[ogg vorbis - 19MB] - 07: VI – The Philosophers – 00:39:14
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[ogg vorbis - 25MB] - 08: VII – Morality and Doctrine, part 1 – 00:35:35
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[ogg vorbis - 23MB] - 09: VII – Morality and Doctrine (part 2) – 00:32:02
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[ogg vorbis - 21MB] - 10: VII – Morality and Doctrine, part 3 – 00:33:26
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[ogg vorbis - 22MB] - 11: VIII – The Fundamentals of the Christian Religion – 00:25:59
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[ogg vorbis - 17MB] - 12: IX – Perpetuity – 00:45:37
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[ogg vorbis - 30MB] - 13: X – Typology – 00:42:30
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[ogg vorbis - 28MB] - 14: XI – The Prophecies, Part 1 – 00:28:07
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[ogg vorbis - 18MB] - 15: XI – The Prophecies, part 2 – 00:34:27
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[ogg vorbis - 22MB] - 16: XII – Proofs of Jesus Christ – 00:43:52
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[ogg vorbis - 29MB] - 17: XIII – The Miracles – 00:51:11
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[ogg vorbis - 34MB] - 18: XIV – Appendix: Polemical Fragments – 00:37:10
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Cataloged on June 30, 2009
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