Pascal's Wager | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-03-17

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00:01:25 1 The Wager
00:04:11 2 Explanation
00:09:47 2.1 Inability to believe
00:10:58 2.2 Analysis with decision theory
00:12:00 2.3 Misunderstanding of the wager
00:13:47 3 Criticism
00:14:23 3.1 Nature as not a proof of the existence of God
00:16:52 3.2 Argument from inconsistent revelations
00:23:20 3.3 Argument from inauthentic belief
00:25:58 4 Variations
00:29:03 5 See also



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Pascal's Wager is an argument in philosophy presented by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal (1623–1662). It posits that humans bet with their lives that God either exists or does not.
Pascal argues that a rational person should live as though God exists and seek to believe in God. If God does not actually exist, such a person will have only a finite loss (some pleasures, luxury, etc.), whereas he stands to receive infinite gains (as represented by eternity in Heaven) and avoid infinite losses (eternity in Hell).Pascal's Wager was based on the idea of the Christian God, though similar arguments have occurred in other religious traditions. The original wager was set out in section 233 of Pascal's posthumously published Pensées ("Thoughts"). These previously unpublished notes were assembled to form an incomplete treatise on Christian apologetics.
Historically, Pascal's Wager was groundbreaking because it charted new territory in probability theory, marked the first formal use of decision theory, and anticipated future philosophies such as existentialism, pragmatism and voluntarism.