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This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal1s manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest to the version Pascal left behind on his death in 1662. A brief history of the text, a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a chronology of Pascal1s life and works, concordances between the Sellier and Lafuma editions of the original, and an index are provided. Contents......Page 4 The Pensees: A Brief History of the Text......Page 7 Selected Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Sources......Page 11 Chronology of Pascal's Life and Times......Page 13 1. Table, etc.......Page 16 2. Order......Page 22 3. Vanity......Page 24 4. Wretchedness......Page 32 6. Cause of the Effects......Page 39 7. Greatness......Page 45 8. Oppositions......Page 47 9. Diversion......Page 53 10. Philosophers......Page 58 11. The Supreme Good......Page 59 12. A. P. R.......Page 61 13. Beginning......Page 65 14. Submission and Use of Reason in which True Christianity Consists......Page 67 15. Excellence of this Way of Proving God......Page 70 16. Transition from the Knowledge of Man to That of God......Page 71 17. Nature Is Corrupt and Falsity of Other Religions......Page 79 18. To Make Religion Attractive......Page 83 19. Foundations of Religion and Reply to Objections......Page 84 20. That the Law Was Figurative......Page 87 21. Rabbinism......Page 99 22. Perpetuity......Page 101 23. Proofs of Moses......Page 104 24. Proofs of Jesus Christ......Page 106 25. Prophecies......Page 111 26. Particular Figures......Page 117 27. Christian Morality......Page 118 28. Conclusion......Page 122 29. Against the Fable of Esdras......Page 124 30. Miracles 1......Page 126 31. Miracles 2......Page 129 32. Miracles 3......Page 142 33. Miscellaneous Thoughts 1......Page 155 34. Miscellaneous Thoughts 2......Page 171 35. Miscellaneous Thoughts 3......Page 180 36. Miscellaneous Thoughts 4......Page 194 37. Miscellaneous Thoughts 5......Page 203 38. Miscellaneous Thoughts 6......Page 209 39. Miscellaneous Thoughts 7......Page 212 40. Miscellaneous Thoughts 8......Page 217 41. Miscellaneous Thoughts 9......Page 220 42. Geometry/Intuition 1......Page 221 43. Geometry/Intuition 2......Page 222 44. Authority......Page 224 45. Discourse on the Machine......Page 226 46. A Letter to Further the Search for God......Page 231 47. Preface to the Second Part......Page 239 48. The State of the Jews 1......Page 243 50. The State of the Jews 3......Page 245 51. The State of the Jews 4......Page 248 52. The State of the Jews 5......Page 249 53. Around Corruption......Page 250 54. Prophecies 1......Page 254 55. Prophecies 2......Page 257 56. Prophecies 3......Page 258 57. Prophecies 4......Page 263 58. Prophecies 5......Page 268 59. Prophecies 6......Page 269 60. Prophecies, Jews, Corruption......Page 274 61. Figurative Law......Page 276 62. Unregistered Fragments......Page 280 Concordance between Lafuma edition (Copy A) and Sellier edition (Copy B)......Page 328 Index......Page 337 This eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest to the version Pascal left behind on his death in 1662. A brief history of the text, a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a chronology of Pascal's life and works, concordances between the Sellier and Lafuma editions of the original, and an index are provided. --Publisher description Roger Ariew masterfully renders the oddities of seventeenth-century French vocabulary and syntax in this eloquent and philosophically astute translation -- the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the version closest to what Pascal intended. To be insensitive to the point of despising things of interest and to become insensitive to what interests us most.