Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and actively strive to believe in God. The reasoning behind this stance lies in the potential outcomes: if God does not exist, the individual incurs only finite losses, potentially sacrificing certain pleasures and luxuries.

Pascal’s Wager about God. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) offers a pragmatic reason for believing in God: even under the assumption that God’s existence is unlikely, the potential benefits of believing are so vast as to make betting on theism rational. The super-dominance form of the argument conveys the basic Pascalian idea, the expectations ...

2021年1月4日 · Pascal thought that evidence cannot settle the question of whether God exists, so he proposes that you should bet, or wager, on God because of what’s at stake: you have lots to gain and not much to lose. This article explains Pascal’s wager and considers three objections.

2023年11月6日 · Blaise Pascal starts his argument by acknowledging that humans have a limited understanding of the universe and are thus unable to ever truly know if God exists. In the Pensées he says: “If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible, since, having neither parts nor limits, He has no affinity to us.

Pascal — French philosopher, scientist, mathematician and probability theorist (1623-1662) — argues that if we don’t know whether God exists then we should play it safe rather than risk being sorry. The argument comes in three versions (Hacking 1972), all …

2009年6月11日 · Pascal believed arguments for God based on natural revelation lack the force and scope required to lead a skeptic to belief in Christ. It is true that such arguments for God do not immediately lead one to Christ, but they are certainly valuable as part of …

2024年4月17日 · Pascal’s wager is a famous argument that seeks to provide a rational justification for believing in God, even in the absence of any empirical evidence. According to Pascal, we face two possibilities: either God exists, or God does not exist. Individuals have the freedom to choose whether to believe or not.

1998年5月2日 · “Pascal’s Wager” is the name given to an argument due to Blaise Pascal for believing, or for at least taking steps to believe, in God. The name is somewhat misleading, for in a single section of his Pensées , Pascal apparently presents four such arguments, each of which might be called a ‘wager’—it is only the third of these that ...

Pascal never called section 233 of the Pensées “The Wager” – although it’s easy to see why it has been thusly named: It approaches the question about whether to believe in God not based primarily on the logical evidences that “God exists,” but on an assessment of the practical pay-offs of belief and non-belief.

2017年3月24日 · In this Wireless Philosophy video, Susanna Rinard (Harvard University) explains Pascal's Wager, Blaise Pascal's famous argument for belief in God. Lifting an approach from the gambling hall,...