ASIN: B00NYB4FLW
Publisher: Meta House Publishing
Pages: 113
One of the most important questions upon which man will ever be forced to wager is this: given our uncertainty about the afterlife, so what? In this book, Moore's introduces a new sort of Pascal's wager and argues that our uncertainty about the afterlife should matter to us greatly, if we are wise. And in order to complete the failed task that Blaise Pascal initiated, the provision of a sound and valid argument about how to wager on the afterlife under uncertainty, Moore argues for and defends the following new Pascalian argument.In brief:1. Foolishness occurs under the following conditions: (a) when one is aware of a severe threat to his or her most relevant interest, (b) when one knows how to minimize the risks to such an interest against such a threat and (c) when, in the face of such a threat-awareness, one flouts his or her risk minimization know-how, opting to hope solely in ...
