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Pascal's Wager
Title: Pascal's Wager
Category: Literature / English
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Pascal's Wager
Pascal’s Wager was developed from Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), a physicist, philosopher and mathematician. He was also a deeply religious man, follower of the Jansenist movement and a French Christian sect, which emphasized personal holiness and especially predestination. Pascal put up a philosophical defense of faith as a fundamental mean of understanding the universe. (Massimo) He was interested in the question of whether it could be rational to believe in God, even if you think it …showed first 75 words of 1659 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1659 total…Sober, Elliott. Core Questions in Philosophy: Pascal and Irrationality. New Jersey:
Prentice Hall Inc., 1995.
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Massimo Pigliucci. A refutation of Pascal’s Wager and why skeptics should be non- theists. http://fp.bio.utk.edu/skeptic/Essays/refutation_of_pascal.html
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