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'The Philosophy of Philosophy', 'The Laws' and 'Penses'
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28. God / B. Proving God / 2. Proofs of Reason / d. Pascal's Wager
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Pascal knows you can't force belief, but you can make it much more probable [Pascal, by Hacking]
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Pascal is right, but relies on the unsupported claim of a half as the chance of God's existence [Hacking on Pascal]
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The libertine would lose a life of enjoyable sin if he chose the cloisters [Hacking on Pascal]
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If you win the wager on God's existence you win everything, if you lose you lose nothing [Pascal]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / a. Cosmological Proof
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The only possible beginning for the endless motions of reality is something self-generated [Plato]
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Self-generating motion is clearly superior to all other kinds of motion [Plato]
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Self-moving soul has to be the oldest thing there is [Plato]
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28. God / B. Proving God / 3. Proofs of Evidence / b. Teleological Proof
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Soul must be the cause of all the opposites, such as good and evil or beauty and ugliness [Plato]
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If all the motions of nature reflect calculations of reason, then the best kind of soul must direct it [Plato]
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