Two caricatures, I: Pascal's Wager

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 44 (2):109 - 114 (1998)
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Abstract

Pascal’s wager and Leibniz’s theory that this is the best of all possible worlds are latecomers in the Faith-and-Reason tradition. They have remained interlopers; they have never been taken as seriously as the older arguments for the existence of God and other themes related to faith and reason.

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