PASCAL, B.: Pensées (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662, Author.

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Music Library.

Naxos Music Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2018.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

Pensées ( 11 min., 30 sec. )

12. Scaramouch, who only thinks of one thing. ( 09 min., 58 sec. )

33. Poetical beauty. As we speak of poetical... ( 10 min., 50 sec. )

Section 2: The Misery of Man Without God ( 11 min., 10 sec. )

If we are well informed, we understand that... ( 10 min., 58 sec. )

73. But perhaps this subject goes beyond... ( 08 min., 57 sec. )

Would you not say that this magistrate... ( 09 min., 31 sec. )

85. Things which have most hold on us... ( 07 min., 32 sec. )

100. Self-love. The nature of self-love... ( 11 min., 22 sec. )

109. When we are well we wonder... ( 11 min., 16 sec. )

136. A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle... ( 11 min., 52 sec. )

140. How does it happen that this man... ( 11 min., 04 sec. )

156. A brutal people for whom, when they are... ( 12 min., 07 sec. )

Section 3: Of the Necessity of the Wager ( 07 min., 45 sec. )

We do not require great education of the mind... ( 11 min., 56 sec. )

195. Before entering into the proofs... ( 09 min., 25 sec. )

218. Dungeon. I approve of not examining... ( 07 min., 17 sec. )

233. Infinite - nothing. Our soul is cast into a body... ( 08 min., 52 sec. )

There is not an infinite distance between... ( 09 min., 01 sec. )

Section 4: Of the Means of Belief ( 12 min., 38 sec. )

260. They hide themselves in the press... ( 13 min., 42 sec. )

286. Those who believe without having read... ( 04 min., 22 sec. )

Section 5: Justice and the Reason of Effects ( 10 min., 15 sec. )

304. The cords which bind the respect of men... ( 09 min., 08 sec. )

323. What is the Ego? Suppose a man... ( 12 min., 15 sec. )

Section 6: The Philosophers ( 07 min., 08 sec. )

358. Man is neither angel nor brute... ( 09 min., 38 sec. )

378. Scepticism. Excess, like defect of intellect... ( 08 min., 05 sec. )

392. Against Scepticism. It is, then, a strange... ( 12 min., 09 sec. )

417. This twofold nature of man... ( 03 min., 16 sec. )

Section 7: Morality and Doctrine ( 07 min., 01 sec. )

Expect neither truth,' she says... ( 11 min., 02 sec. )

433. After having understood the whole nature... ( 09 min., 50 sec. )

435. Without this divine knowledge... ( 12 min., 50 sec. )

451. All men naturally hate one another. ( 10 min., 03 sec. )

468. No other religion has proposed to men... ( 08 min., 15 sec. )

482. Morality. God having made the heavens... ( 10 min., 34 sec. )

499. External works. There is nothing... ( 11 min., 32 sec. )

519. John 8. Many believed him. ( 13 min., 04 sec. )

548. Not only do we know God... ( 13 min., 04 sec. )

Section 8: The Fundamentals... ( 08 min., 54 sec. )

560. We do not understand the glorious state... ( 10 min., 36 sec. )

572. Hypothesis that the apostles were impostors. ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

Section 9: Perpetuity ( 05 min., 24 sec. )

601. The heathen religion has no foundation... ( 12 min., 53 sec. )

611. Republic. The Christian republic... ( 11 min., 58 sec. )

620. Advantages of the Jewish people. ( 10 min., 13 sec. )

632. On Ezra. The story that the books... ( 08 min., 36 sec. )

Section 10: Typology ( 11 min., 13 sec. )

659. Types. To show that the Old Testament... ( 10 min., 51 sec. )

671. The Jews, who have been called to subdue... ( 07 min., 10 sec. )

How greatly then ought we to value those... ( 08 min., 32 sec. )

687. Types. When the word of God... ( 06 min., 52 sec. )

Section 11: The Prophecies ( 06 min., 10 sec. )

706. But it was not enough that the prophecies... ( 09 min., 45 sec. )

Isaiah 42: 'I am the Lord, and my glory...' ( 11 min., 37 sec. )

714. The Jews witnesses for God. ( 09 min., 28 sec. )

Daniel 9:20. 'Whilst I was praying...' ( 09 min., 27 sec. )

723. Prophecies. The seventy weeks of Daniel... ( 10 min., 16 sec. )

Amos viii. The prophet, having enumerated... ( 13 min., 46 sec. )

Section 12: Proofs of Jesus Christ ( 08 min., 17 sec. )

751. What do the prophets say of Jesus Christ? ( 10 min., 43 sec. )

769. The conversion of the heathen... ( 11 min., 52 sec. )

788. 'I have reserved me seven thousand.' ( 11 min., 45 sec. )

Section 13: The Miracles ( 08 min., 24 sec. )

818. Having considered how it comes that... ( 08 min., 13 sec. )

1 Kings 17. The widow to Elijah... ( 10 min., 55 sec. )

841. Miracles furnish the test in matters of doubt... ( 10 min., 40 sec. )

844. The three marks of religion... ( 12 min., 18 sec. )

Section 14: Appendix: Polemical Fragments ( 09 min., 40 sec. )

870. God has not wanted to absolve without... ( 10 min., 44 sec. )

890. Tertullian: The Church will never be reformed. ( 08 min., 35 sec. )

910. Can it be anything but compliance... ( 10 minutes, 04 sec. )

Participant:

Wickham, Peter, Reader -- Pascal, Blaise, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781981603

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Restricted for use by site license.