A aposta de Pascal na epistemologia da religião contemporânea

Abstract

Blaise Pascal, formed within the Christian tradition that is the starting point of his philosophical categories, lived in the effervescence of rationalist thought and the philosophical system that was intended to unravel all mysteries, including those related to faith. This work aims to understand the concept of Pascal's Bet in the Epistemology of Contemporary Religion. The present research consists of three moments: 1) The presentation of the structure of the Bet, which is the Pascal's rationale for the reasons for the bet; 2) The rationality of the Bet's arguments and how the bet is legitimized in the epistemological scenario; 3) The connection between the Bet and Theism. Following Pascal, we will try to show how the Theistic belief is well structured rationally can be understood from a pragmatic perspective, even in the absence of epistemic evidence in support of them.