
思想录
Pensées
Blaise Pascal、Philippe Sellier、William Finlayson Trotter、T. S. Eliot · 初版 1670 年
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“Blaise Pascal 是与笛卡尔同时代的天才神童,他是一位才华横溢的数学家和物理学家,但他如今的盛名却建立在他那部未完成的基督教辩护书之上。The Pensees 是一部哲学片段、笔记和随笔的合集,他在其中从心理学、社会学、形而上学以及最核心的神学角度探讨了人性的矛盾。在 Pascal 的分析中,人类展现为冷酷宇宙中可悲而孤寂的受造物,但同时也是一种其存在能够通过信仰上帝的恩典而获得升华的生命
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那些我十几岁时读过、即使不算怀旧也留下了持久影响的书: - 布莱兹·帕斯卡的《思想录》(Pensées) - 勒内·笛卡尔的《谈谈方法》(Discours de la méthode) - 亨利·庞加莱的《数学的未来》(L'avenir des mathématiques) 他们驾驭文字的方式让我折服。他们的希望与困惑令我动容。他们的才智简直彻底刷新了我的认知。
Ones I read as a teenager that have a lasting, if not nostalgic, effect: - Blaise Pascal's "Pensées" (Thoughts) - René Descartes' "Discours de la méthode" (Discourse on the method) - Henri Poincaré's "L'avenir des mathématiques" (The future of mathematics) The way they wielded words pleased me. Their hopes and doubts moved me. Their intellect shattered my brain.
帕斯卡的《思想录》(Pensées)
Pascal's Pensees
如果你想把 Graham 的论点限制在非虚构类(non-fiction)范畴,那我完全赞同。 但容我补充一点背景: 作为一个法国人,当我想到“随笔/散文”(Essay)时,脑海里几乎下意识就会浮现出两位作家:蒙田和帕斯卡(比如他的《思想录》)。 “简单”大概是我形容他们作品时最不可能用到的词了。它们一点都不简单,而是复杂、深邃、优美,篇幅宏
If you want to restrict Graham's argument to non-fiction, I'll happily grant you that. But let me give you a bit more context: As a Frenchman, when I think "Essay", my mind almost automatically reaches for two authors: Montaigne and Pascal (e.g. in his Pensées). "Simple" is probably the last qualifier I would use to describe their works. They're not simple. They're complex, rich, beautiful, cop
帕斯卡在《思想录》中用这个令人困惑的概念来论证灵魂的真实存在。看到古往今来的人们都在跟这些思想搏斗,真挺有意思的:“而到底是什么彻底剥夺了我们认识事物的能力,……
Pascal in "Pensees" used this perplexing notion to argue for the reality of the soul. Interesting to see people grappling with these ideas through the centuries: "And what completes our incapability of knowing things,…
……帕斯卡并不理会自己是不是疯了这种担忧(如果你问自己“我怎么知道自己没疯?”,实际上你默认的前提就已经是自己没疯了)。不过,我其实并没把帕斯卡的《思想录》全部读完。就我读过的选段来看,后来的哲学家和如今写书立作的人往往都把他严重稻草人化了,所以据我所知,那个著名的“帕斯卡赌注”背后其实也很可能是另一番光景。
…Pascal rejected the concern that he might be insane (if you ask yourself "how do I know I'm not crazy?" you're basically already assuming you're not crazy). But, I haven't actually read all of Pascal's Pensees. What extracts I have read of it suggests to me that he's heavily straw-manned both by later philosophers and people writing about it today, so for all I know the "wager" was more like this, too.
……谁也不会去买。我们对自己的本性真是一无所知。野兔本身并不能帮我们遮蔽死亡与灾祸的阴影;但追逐野兔的过程转移了我们的注意力,从而真正遮蔽了这些不幸。”(《思想录》,布莱兹·帕斯卡)
…would not have bought, scarce know our nature. The hare in itself would not screen us from the sight of death and calamities; but the chase which turns away our attention from these, does screen us.” (Pensees, Blaise Pascal)