Pascal, Pascalberg, and friends
Pascal's wager has to face the many gods objection. The wager goes wrong when it asks us to chose between Christianity and atheism, as if there are no other options. Some have argued that we're entitled to dismiss exotic, bizarre, or subjectively unappealing religions from the scope of the...
| Published in: | International journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature B. V
[2020]
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International journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 87, Issue: 1, Pages: 109-130 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Pascal, Blaise 1623-1662
/ Truth
/ Christianity
/ Atheism
/ Judaism
/ Islam
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism AX Inter-religious relations CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations VA Philosophy |
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| Summary: | Pascal's wager has to face the many gods objection. The wager goes wrong when it asks us to chose between Christianity and atheism, as if there are no other options. Some have argued that we're entitled to dismiss exotic, bizarre, or subjectively unappealing religions from the scope of the wager. But they have provided no satisfying justification for such a radical wager-saving dispensation. This paper fills that dialectical gap. It argues that some agents are blameless or even praiseworthy for ignoring all but one religion as they face the wager. The argument leads us to multiple Pascals: a Jewish one, a Christian one, a Muslim one, and more. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8684 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s11153-019-09734-x |