Pascal believes that you are supposed to make a decision off of faith not reason, “But towards which side will we lean? Reason cannot decide anything” (Pascal, 481). You must also have to make a choice to believe or not, you can’t stay in between. He believes that when one could never know which truth is right one must pick the choice with the greatest expected utility. You have to play out the odds. The best choice in this case is to believe that God does exist because it will have the greatest expect utility for oneself. Pascal believes that because of all of this we should take the risk and believe in the existence of God. The justification that Pascal uses is that we can neither prove god's existence nor know his nature because we are finite and he is infinite and we would reason about something that isn't known to us. Pascal starts off his essay by stating that, “If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible…He has no affinity to us.” (Pascal, 78). An infinite distance separates the finite from the infinite. He mentions that we as humans are stuck between infinities, those infinities being one at the beginning of our life and the other is then end of our life. This being said
Pascal believes that you are supposed to make a decision off of faith not reason, “But towards which side will we lean? Reason cannot decide anything” (Pascal, 481). You must also have to make a choice to believe or not, you can’t stay in between. He believes that when one could never know which truth is right one must pick the choice with the greatest expected utility. You have to play out the odds. The best choice in this case is to believe that God does exist because it will have the greatest expect utility for oneself. Pascal believes that because of all of this we should take the risk and believe in the existence of God. The justification that Pascal uses is that we can neither prove god's existence nor know his nature because we are finite and he is infinite and we would reason about something that isn't known to us. Pascal starts off his essay by stating that, “If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible…He has no affinity to us.” (Pascal, 78). An infinite distance separates the finite from the infinite. He mentions that we as humans are stuck between infinities, those infinities being one at the beginning of our life and the other is then end of our life. This being said