82: Blaise Pascal’s Faithful Calculations

There is nothing new under the sun: it was here, already, long ago. It was here before our time. This much must be said of the ancient skeptics, who put forward perspectival, relativistic, and moral anti-realist arguments during the Hellenistic age. The central figure is Pyrrho o ...  Show more

Devin (Left Nietzschean) joined me to discuss the underlying philosophical themes of Star Trek, including a potential affinity with Nietzsche as regards the need for self-overcoming as opposed to utopia; the idea of moral "perfectionism", interpreted through "Schopenhauer as Educ ...  Show more

On this episode of the podcast, we begin our discussion of Blaise Pascal by examining Pascal's Wager. We begin by hearkening back to last week's episode and imagine Pascal as Descartes' wingman in a door-to-door campaign to convince us to believe in God. Whereas Descartes tries t ...  Show more

من حلقة الدين فى عصر العلم EP44: Religion in an Age of Science فيلسوف عصر النهضة الفرنسى فولتير Voltaire فى رسالة بعنوان "الملاحظات الاولى على أفكار باسكال Remarques (Premiéres) sur les Pensées de Pascal" نشرها سنة 1728 رفض فكرة الرهان كدليل على وجود الله، واعتبرها طفولية! واضاف ...  Show more

من حلقة الدين فى عصر العلم EP44: Religion in an Age of Science هو احد صور الاعتقاد البرجماتى اللى طرحها الرياضى الفرنسى بليز باسكال Blaise Pascal قبل عدة قرون، واللى من خلالها قدم رهان برجماتى او عملى عادة ما بيشار الية برهان باسكال لتبرير الاعتقاد الدينى باستخدام تحليل التكاليف ...  Show more

On this episode of the podcast we continue our discussion of Blaise Pascal, this time focusing on his assertion that man is “the supreme paradox of creation.” First, we learn about Pascal’s early life and feel completely inadequate when we learn that he invented the calculator (y ...  Show more