Episode #031 ... Pascal's Wager

Today we talk about the book After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. We talk about his genealogy of moral discourse. The teleologies of Aristotle. The failure of the Enlightenment moral project. Our modern culture of Emotivism and the sorts of characters that thrive in it. Shared pra ...  Show more

Today we talk about the play Hamlet written by William Shakespeare. We compare more traditional takes on the themes of the play to a more modern, philosophical analysis of the play done by Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster. We talk about Hamlet and his inability to take action ...  Show more

Pascal and Nietzsche are two names of monumental importance in the Western philosophical tradition, but rarely are their names mentioned together. At a glance, there is a wide gulf that separates the two, and seems to place them at irreconcilable odds. Pascal was a devout Christi ...  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

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

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