HoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates

HoP 016 - Method Man - Plato's Socrates

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HoP 484 You Bet Your Life: Pascal’s Wager

Should we gamble on belief in God to have a chance at infinite reward? 

HoP 483 Between Infinity and the Void: Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was a pioneering scientist and deeply spiritual religious thinker; what united these two sides of his thought? 

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