Pensées: Deep Review

Original academic guide to Pensées by Blaise Pascal.

• Great Books & Ideas
• 32 min
• Ages 15–99
• 10 chapters

About this audiobook

Pascal's unfinished fragments on human greatness and misery, distraction, reason, custom, faith, uncertainty, grace, and the famous wager.

Why it's worth a listen

Reconstruct the argument Pascal never finished without smoothing away its fragmentary form, theological commitments, psychological acuity, or polemical pressure.

Based on the book by Blaise Pascal, published by Emma's Library

Chapters

1. Introduction: An Unfinished Monument of Human Contradiction
2. The Historical and Intellectual Crucible of Port-Royal
3. The Problem This Book Is Trying To Solve
4. Reconstructing the Unfinished Apology: Structure and Fragmentary Form
5. Greatness and Misery: The Psychological Anatomy of the Human Condition
6. Diversion, Custom, and the Limits of Human Reason
7. The Wager: Probability, Pragmatism, and Passion
8. The Hidden God and the Economy of Grace
9. What is Brilliant, What is Dated, and What is Dangerous
10. How to Read the Pensées and Who Should Read It Today