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The provincial letters of Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 372 pages

A series of epistolary essays in which Blaise Pascal, writing under a pseudonym, defends the Jansenist theologian Antoine Arnauld and critiques the moral theology and casuistry of the Jesuits. They are valued for their clear, ironic prose and their passionate argument about conscience, power, and religious authority.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. THE PROVINCIAL LETTERS OF BLAISE PASCAL.
  2. CONTENTS.
  3. THE TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE.
  4. HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE PROVINCIAL LETTERS. BY THE TRANSLATOR.
  5. LETTER I.
  6. LETTER II.
  7. REPLY OF THE “PROVINCIAL” TO THE FIRST TWO LETTERS OF HIS FRIEND.
  8. LETTER III.
  9. LETTER IV.
  10. LETTER V.
  11. LETTER VI.
  12. LETTER VII.
  13. LETTER VIII.
  14. LETTER IX.
  15. LETTER X.
  16. LETTER XI.
  17. LETTER XII.
  18. LETTER XIII.
  19. LETTER XIV.
  20. LETTER XV.
  21. LETTER XVI.
  22. LETTER XVII.
  23. LETTER XVIII.
  24. LETTER XIX.
  25. Footnotes
  26. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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