Religion, hypocrisy, and betting on secularity: reversing Smilansky's wager
Saul Smilansky presents us with a puzzle which, in combination with a small number of premises, is supposed to generate a reversal of Pascal's wager: the wagerer should bet on a secular lifestyle, and reject religion, as the surest way of pleasing God (if God exists). In this article, we argue...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2024
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Religious studies
Έτος: 2024, Τόμος: 60, Τεύχος: 1, Σελίδες: 174-186 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Pascal's wager
B Self-deception B Hypocrisy B Faith B Akrasia |
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| Σύνοψη: | Saul Smilansky presents us with a puzzle which, in combination with a small number of premises, is supposed to generate a reversal of Pascal's wager: the wagerer should bet on a secular lifestyle, and reject religion, as the surest way of pleasing God (if God exists). In this article, we argue that the puzzle, once unpacked, isn't particularly puzzling, that the premises aren't true, and that Smilansky's wager is open to both reductio and a reversal of its own. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412523000227 |