編輯推薦
在中國現代化的進程中,西方哲學社會科學始終是最重要的思想資源。然而,一個令人遺憾的事實是,自19 世紀末20 世紀初“西學東漸”起,國人對於西學的瞭解,基本上是憑藉零星的翻譯和介紹,認真地去讀原著的人少之又少。這些中譯本,囿於譯者的眼光和水平,往往與原著齣入頗大。因此,國人談論西學的情景,很像是瞎子摸象,雖然各執一詞,卻皆不得要領。
當然,100年間,還是齣現瞭一批學貫中西的學者,但其中肯花工夫於譯業的太少。許多年積纍下來,我們在這個領域擁有的優質中譯本依然十分有限。而且,再好的譯本,畢竟與原著隔瞭一層。倘若我們的學術界始終主要依靠中譯本去瞭解和研究西學,我們的西學水平就永遠不能擺脫可憐的境況。
好在現在有瞭改變這種境況的條件。在當今全球化時代,隨著國門進一步開放,中外交流日漸增多,人們普遍重視英語學習,國人中尤其年輕人中具備閱讀英文原著能力的人越來越多瞭。在這種形勢下,本叢書應運而生。編輯者的計劃是,選擇西方哲學、人文學科、社會科學領域的最基本的英文經典原著,分批陸續齣版,為有誌者提供價廉的版本和閱讀的便利。我贊賞這樣的善舉,並且相信,這也是為學術界做的一件益事。
周國平
2010 年2 月24 日
內容簡介
《英文學術名著:思想錄(英文全本)》是十七世紀法國數理科學傢、思想傢帕斯卡爾的重要理論著作。全書集中反映瞭帕斯卡爾的神學和哲學思想。作傢繼承瞭理性主義的傳統,對於人性、人生、社會、哲學和宗教等問題進行瞭深入的探討,在西方思想史上産生瞭極為重要的影響。
精彩書評
★倘若我們的學術界始終主要依靠中譯本去瞭解和研究西學,我們的西學水平就永遠不能擺脫可憐的境況。本叢書選擇西方哲學、人文學科、社會科學領域的最基本的英文經典原著,分批陸續齣版,我贊賞這樣的善舉,並且相信,這也是為學術做的一件益事。
——周國平
目錄
1 THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE.
2 THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD.
3 OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER.
4 OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF.
5 JUSTICE AND THE REASON oF EFFECTS.
6 THE PHILOSOPHERS.
7 MORALITY AND DOCTRINE.
8 THE FUNDAMENTALS OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION.
9 PERPETUITY.
10 TYPOLOGY.
11 THE PROPHECIES.
12 PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST.
13 THE MIRACLES.
14 APPENDIX: POLEMICAL FRAGMENTS.
精彩書摘
This is a doubt of terrible consequence. They are in peril of eternal woe and thereupon, as if the matter were not worth the trouble, they neglect to inquire whether this is one of those opinions which people receive with too credulous a facility, or one of those which, obscure in themselves, have a very firm, though hidden, foundation. Thus they know not whether there be truth or falsity in the matter, nor whether there be strength or weakness in the proofs. They have them before their eyes; they refuse to look at them; and in that ignorance they choose all that is necessary to fall into this misfortune if it exists, to await death to make trial of it, yet to be very content in this state, to make profession of it, and indeed to boast of it. Can we think seriously of the importance of this subject without being horrified at conduct so extravagant?
This resting in ignorance is a monstrous thing, and they who pass their life in it must be made to feel its extravagance and stupidity, by having it shown to them, so that they may be confounded by the sight of their folly. For this is how men reason, when they choose to live in such ignorance of what they are and without seeking enlightenment. "I know not," they say...
196. Men lack heart; they would not make a friend of it.
197. To be insensible to the extent of despising interesting things, and to become insensible to the point which interests us most.
198. The sensibility of man to trifies, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion.
199. Let us imagine a number of men in chains and all condemned to death, where some are killed each day in the sight of the others, and those who remain see their own fate in that of their fellows and wait their turn, looking at each other sorrowfully and without hope. It is an image of the condition of men.
200. A man in a dungeon, ignorant whether his sentence be pronounced and having only one hour to learn it, but this hour enough, if he knew that it is pronounced, to obtain its repeal, would act unnaturally in spending that hour, not in ascertaining his sentence, but in playing piquet. So it is against nature that man, etc. It is making heavy the hand of God.
Thus not only the zeal of those who seek Him proves God, but also the blindness of those who seek Him not.
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