Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Cleanthes and Blaise Pascal

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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager
Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal]
Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking]
The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal]
If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal]
28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
The ascending scale of living creatures requires a perfect being [Cleanthes, by Tieleman]