思想录（英文版）

　　在17世纪中叶的二十余年问，帕斯卡在自然和社会科学的诸多领域都作出卓越的贡献。这个出身于法国冉森派基督徒家庭的早慧的通才在几何学和概率论方面的探讨既为莱布尼茨的微积分理论奠定了点基础，又大大影响了现代经济学和社会科学的发展。然而在经历了一次神秘体验后，帕斯卡断然放弃数学和物理学研究，转而从事于哲学沉思和写作，有关论著在其死后被编为《思想录》。
　　帕斯卡上承人文主义和理性主义的传统，对人性、人生、社会、哲学以及宗教信仰进行了深入的探讨，在西方思想史上产生极其重要的影响。帕斯卡文笔清丽、雅洁，他的《思想录》一向被视为世界三大经典哲理散文之一。

　　PASCAI’s Pensees is widely considered to be a masterpiece， and
a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular
section， Sainte-Beuve praised it as the finest pages in the French
language.
　　Will Durant， in his II-volume， comprehensive The
　　Story of Civilization series， hailed it as “the most eloquent
book in French prose.”
　　In Pensees， 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.

　　BLAISF， PASCAL （162，3-1662）， French mathematician， physicist，
inventor， writer and Catholic philosopher. Pascal’s earliest work
was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important
contributions to the study of fluids， and he was a mathematician of
the first order. He wrote a significant treatise on the subject of
projective geometry at the age of sixteen， and later corresponded
with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory， strongly influencing
the development of modern economics and social science.
　　Following a mystical experience in late 1654， he abandoned his
scientific work， and devoted himself to philosophy and theology，
His two most famous works date from this period： the Lettres
provincials and the Pensees.

INTRODUCTION
SECTION I THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE
SECTION II THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD
SECTION III OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER
SECTION IV OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF
SECTION V JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF EFFECTS
SECTION VI THE PHILOSOPHERS
SECTION VII MORALITY AND DOCTRINE
SECTION VIII THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE
CHRISTIAN RELIGION
SECTION IX PERPETUITY
SECTION X TYPOLOGY
SECTION XI THE PROPHECIES
SECTION XII PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST
SECTION XIII THE MIRACLES
SECTION XIV APPENDIX: POLEMICAL FRAGMENTS
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