Pascal Argues That If We Do a Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Matter

question 4

Multiple Choice

Pascal argues that if we do a cost-benefit analysis of the matter, it turns out that it is eminently reasonable to get ourselves to believe that God exists, regardless of whether we have good evidence for that belief. The argument goes something like this: Regarding the proposition "God exists," reason is neutral. It can neither prove nor disprove it. But we must make a choice on this matter because not to choose for God is in effect to choose against God and lose the possible benefits that belief would bring. Because these benefits of faith promise to be infinite and the loss equally infinite, we must take a gamble on faith.
-According to Pascal, as finite humans, we are incapable of knowing

• A) the infinite.
• B) what God is or if God is.
• C) the infinity of numbers.
• D) finite things.

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