Pascal and the Port Royalists: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Pascal and the Port Royalists, credited to William Clark, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

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LibriVox recording of Pascal and the Port Royalists by William Clark. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers. Pascal is of the small number of those [men] in whom the man infinitely transcends his actions. The writings of Pascal are the finest that France possesses; yet they contain nothing of equal value with the Life of Pascal written by his sister in a few pages. It is of such writings and of such a life that we have to speak in this volume; and it is of unspeakable advantage to the student that he should possess a source of information respecting the early days of Pascal of such unquestionable authority. Nearly all that we know of Pascal is derived from this Life and from his own writings, and especially from the Provincial Letters and the Thoughts. These works have been commented upon, controverted, and defended; and there is little to be said on either side which has not been said already. In the present volume Pascal chiefly speaks for himself, and the comments upon his statements are generally brief. - Summary by Adapted from Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: Pascal and the Port Royalists
• Author credits: William Clark
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Combined MP3 track duration: 6:24:33

Catalogue topics

• early modern philosophy
• port royal
• jansenism
• port-royal des champs
• blaise pascal
• philosophical biography
• intellectual biography

Track guide

1. 01 - Preface — 3:17
2. 02 - Early Days — 15:49
3. 03 - Scientific Work Part 1 — 16:14
4. 04 - Scientific Work Part 2 — 12:10
5. 05 - Spiritual Life Part 1 — 14:10
6. 06 - Spiritual Life Part 2 — 13:23
7. 07 - Spiritual Life Part 3 — 15:13
8. 08 - Port Royal — 24:55
9. 09 - The Provincial Letters Part 1 — 15:55
10. 10 - The Provincial Letters Part 2 — 24:01
11. 11 - The Provincial Letters Part 3 — 22:18
12. 12 - The Provincial Letters Part 4 — 24:54
13. 13 - The Provincial Letters Part 5 — 18:28
14. 14 - Later Years Part 1 — 15:01
15. 15 - Later Years Part 2 — 17:18
16. 16 - The Thoughts Part 1 — 19:33
17. 17 - The Thoughts Part 2 — 16:54
18. 18 - The Thoughts Part 3 — 25:24
19. 19 - The Thoughts Part 4 — 20:19
20. 20 - The Thoughts Part 5 — 31:07
21. 21 - The Thoughts Part 6 — 6:11
22. 22 - Destruction of Port Royal — 11:59

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