mostafa hosseini golkar; mohamad mohamad rezaii
Volume 10, Issue 39 , October 2014, , Pages 59-94
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Regarding Wittgensteinian view towards fideism, two questions have been left unanswered: Firstly, has Wittgenstein explicitly defended fideism? And secondly, can fideism be deducted from his thoughts? In the present paper, after a research into the nature of fideism, it has been shown that ...
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Regarding Wittgensteinian view towards fideism, two questions have been left unanswered: Firstly, has Wittgenstein explicitly defended fideism? And secondly, can fideism be deducted from his thoughts? In the present paper, after a research into the nature of fideism, it has been shown that relating fideism to Wittgenstein has mostly been based on a special interpretation of part of his Philosophical Investigations. Attention to and reflection in Wittgenstein’s collection of ideas, especially in Culture and Value and Lectures and Conversations shows numerous reasons and evidence exist which reject Wittgenstein’s fideism and can be substituted for the common existing hypothesis. Moreover, it should be remembered that inducing fideism from the distinction between language-game of religion and that of other entities is somehow the mixing of the language-game as meaning and understanding hypothesis and the induction and judgment hypothesis, and, eventually, following the path of religious thinking of Wittgenstein somehow challenges the view of dividing his realms of thought into two periods.
mohammad mohammad rezai; mostafa hoseyni golkar
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There is no agreement about Pascal’s purpose of suggesting his “Wager.” Is Pascal after presenting a logical reason or merely invites others to his spiritual intimacy? Is his addressee Atheist or his purpse is strengthening Christian faith? What are the origins of “Pascal’s ...
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There is no agreement about Pascal’s purpose of suggesting his “Wager.” Is Pascal after presenting a logical reason or merely invites others to his spiritual intimacy? Is his addressee Atheist or his purpse is strengthening Christian faith? What are the origins of “Pascal’s Wager”? In this paper, we try to describe Pascal’s sayings about his wager as far as possible and then, explecate contradictory interpretations about the wager through clarifying the above questions. Firstly, the Religious views about rationality are presented. Then, the historical roots, presumptions and premises of the wager are considered and analyses. After that, the main conflicting conceptions of rationality are recognized by means of considering the most important criticisms and interpretations of Pascal’s wager. Finally, we conclude that many objections to the wager have been raised from detaching its presumptions and premises from its conclusion.
