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Single Idea 7985
[filed under theme 28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager
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Full Idea
What Pascal says, more or less, is that you can more or less content yourself with a secular existence and its advantages, but it's much more fun with the hypothesis of God.
Gist of Idea
Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God
Source
Jean Baudrillard (The Intelligence of Evil [2004], p.155)
Book Ref
Baudrillard,Jean: 'The Intelligence of Evil or The Lucidity Pact' [Berg 2005], p.155
A Reaction
Pascal will be a bit startled when he reads this, but it is a lovely way to present his idea. It suddenly sounds much more attractive. Life would be much more fun if we lived according to all sorts of startling beliefs. Relating your life to God is one.
The
16 ideas
from Jean Baudrillard
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7974
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Without God we faced reality: what do we face without reality?
[Baudrillard]
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7973
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There is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say
[Baudrillard]
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7975
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The task of philosophy is to unmask the illusion of objective reality
[Baudrillard]
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7976
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People like democracy because it means they can avoid power
[Baudrillard]
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7977
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Only in the last 200 years have people demanded the democratic privilege of being individuals
[Baudrillard]
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7978
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There is no need to involve the idea of free will to make choices about one's life
[Baudrillard]
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7979
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The arrival of the news media brought history to an end
[Baudrillard]
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7980
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In modern times, being useless is the essential aesthetic ingredient for an object
[Baudrillard]
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7981
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Whole populations are terrorist threats to authorities, who unite against them
[Baudrillard]
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7982
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Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled
[Baudrillard]
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7983
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Good versus evil has been banefully reduced to happiness versus misfortune
[Baudrillard]
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7984
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Suicide is ascribed to depression, with the originality of the act of will ignored
[Baudrillard]
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7985
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Pascal says secular life is acceptable, but more fun with the hypothesis of God
[Baudrillard]
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7986
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Drunken boat pilots are less likely to collide than clearly focused ones
[Baudrillard]
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7987
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Nothing is true, but everything is exact
[Baudrillard]
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6841
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Some continental philosophers are relativists - Baudrillard, for example
[Baudrillard, by Critchley]
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