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在中国现代化的进程中,西方哲学社会科学始终是最重要的思想资源。然而,一个令人遗憾的事实是,自19 世纪末20 世纪初“西学东渐”起,国人对于西学的了解,基本上是凭借零星的翻译和介绍,认真地去读原著的人少之又少。这些中译本,囿于译者的眼光和水平,往往与原著出入颇大。因此,国人谈论西学的情景,很像是瞎子摸象,虽然各执一词,却皆不得要领。
当然,100年间,还是出现了一批学贯中西的学者,但其中肯花工夫于译业的太少。许多年积累下来,我们在这个领域拥有的优质中译本依然十分有限。而且,再好的译本,毕竟与原著隔了一层。倘若我们的学术界始终主要依靠中译本去了解和研究西学,我们的西学水平就永远不能摆脱可怜的境况。
好在现在有了改变这种境况的条件。在当今全球化时代,随着国门进一步开放,中外交流日渐增多,人们普遍重视英语学习,国人中尤其年轻人中具备阅读英文原著能力的人越来越多了。在这种形势下,本丛书应运而生。编辑者的计划是,选择西方哲学、人文学科、社会科学领域的最基本的英文经典原著,分批陆续出版,为有志者提供价廉的版本和阅读的便利。我赞赏这样的善举,并且相信,这也是为学术界做的一件益事。
周国平
2010 年2 月24 日
内容简介
《英文学术名著:思想录(英文全本)》是十七世纪法国数理科学家、思想家帕斯卡尔的重要理论著作。全书集中反映了帕斯卡尔的神学和哲学思想。作家继承了理性主义的传统,对于人性、人生、社会、哲学和宗教等问题进行了深入的探讨,在西方思想史上产生了极为重要的影响。
精彩书评
★倘若我们的学术界始终主要依靠中译本去了解和研究西学,我们的西学水平就永远不能摆脱可怜的境况。本丛书选择西方哲学、人文学科、社会科学领域的最基本的英文经典原著,分批陆续出版,我赞赏这样的善举,并且相信,这也是为学术做的一件益事。
——周国平
目录
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.
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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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