Summary Of Blaise Pascal's The Wager

Within the atheist and theist communities, one of the most recognizable and well-known texts arise from the 17th-century mathematician and philosopher is Blaise Pascal’s “The Wager”. This specific text outlines the necessity to accept the belief in God on the terms of probabilistic safety and thus why the average person should comply with their established laws and rituals. The contribution of Pascal is best understood by using extensive of posteriors of probability measures. When it is applied that the workings of life are forced into the very nature of existence by the necessity of Yahweh’s interests accordingly to the Abrahamic doctrine. Be it that if that God may not even exist, even within supernatural ability in a realm of infinite ability, then there is no harm that is placed upon the person during their lives; and if the inverse is true, then it would go against any damages in the eternal afterlife. Pascal continues on then with this deduction on the premises provided that it would be in the best interests of others to submit to one of the main Abrahamic religions in Europe out of the sake of convenience. Pascal provides that the series of events, assuming the previous dissection was true by all
The benefit of this third option is extremely vital as solves both problems of short and long term effects. With such reasoning, rather than pure belief is able to fully disbelief in be authentic as the designations of Sartre’s reasoning while having presumptive safety if a deity does exist. While some may argue that this does not correspond to the earlier arguments of the multitude of divine beings, such can be invalidated on the terms of the infinity arguments presented earlier. Thus, it may be so that this position still contains a fairly slim chance of long-term benefit and provides infinite gratitude in the short