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Pensees: Selected Fragments

Pensees

textual humanities text book major Lifetime Path planned

Creators

  • Blaise Pascal, author

Canon Rationale

A major Christian philosophical fragment collection, included for faith and reason, skepticism, human finitude, the Wager, diversion, hiddenness, and apologetic form.

Path

Lifetime path, phase 1, rank 119.

Evidence

  • handbook: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 'Pensees'.
  • museum record: Project Gutenberg, 'Pascal's Pensees' by Blaise Pascal.

Audit Flags

translation dependency, version dependency

Completion unit: read a documented selection from Pascal’s Pensees including the Wager, diversion, greatness/wretchedness, and hidden God fragments. Record edition, translator, and fragment numbering.

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