Blaise Pascal

                          Blaise Pascal Wager, it posits that human bets with their lives that God either exists or does not. His philosophy aimed to defend the Christian faith. He used mathematician in his argument in his particular probability. Blaise Pascal believes that ‘’Men do evil so completely and cheerfully when they do it from religious conviction.’’ He was a French mathematician, physicist and a religious philosopher.

                He was born on June 19,1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, France. He invented the Pascaline especially in the areas of projective geometry and probability theory. He is also regarded as one of the most important author of the French Classical Period and one of the greatest masters of French prose. And further validated Evangelista Torricelli’s Theory concerning the cause of barometrical variation. At the age of 16, Pascal wrote his first important treatise of mathematics entitled Essay on Conics, which took the French mathematician and philosopher Descartes by surprise. In 1654, Blaise Pascal was 31, years old he lost internet in scientific work and decided to focus solely in the theology, and philosophy. Pascal died of a malignant stomach tumor which had metastasized in his brain at his sister Gilberte’s home in Paris on August 19,1662 at the age of 39. He is buried in the cemetery of the Parisian church Saint Etienn-du-Mont.

               Pascal most important theological work, posthumously named thoughts incorporated the philosophical concept known as Pascal Wager. According to Blaise Pascal, a rational individual should live as if God does exist and strive to believe in God for an infinite gain. If God does not exist, then the individual will experience solely a finite material loss. Pascal embrace the doctrine of original sin. Blaise Pascal   recognizing the limits of reason, Pascal is willing embrace faith that God has revealed fundamental truths to particular people. You should believe in God. The chance that God exists is positive and finite. If you believe in God and he exists, you’ll get an infinite reward. If you believe in God and he doesn’t exist, you’ll have only a finite loss. Believing in God has an infinite expected utility. If you don’t believe in God and he exists, you’ll lose something. If don’t believe in God and he doesn’t exist, you’ll win only a finite gain. Not believing in God has a finite gain negative expected utility. Believing in God has much higher expected utility than not believing in God. You should do that which has the higher expected utility.

              Blaise Pascal used probability theory to further explain his philosophy so that people will understand it easily. Blaise Pascal’s philosophy aimed to encourage people to believe that God exists and have more faith. According to Blaise Pascal, if we believe in God. Then if he exists we will receive an infinite in heaven, while if he does not then we have lost little or nothing. I therefore conclude that Blaise Pascal is not only a great philosopher but also a religious person.