Detalhes bibliográficos
| Ano de defesa: |
2021 |
| Autor(a) principal: |
Rocha, Arlindo Nascimento
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| Orientador(a): |
Cruz, Eduardo Rodrigues da
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| Banca de defesa: |
Não Informado pela instituição |
| Tipo de documento: |
Tese
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| Tipo de acesso: |
Acesso aberto |
| Idioma: |
por |
| Instituição de defesa: |
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
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| Programa de Pós-Graduação: |
Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciência da Religião
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| Departamento: |
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais
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| País: |
Brasil
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| Link de acesso: |
https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/24242
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Resumo: |
Blaise Pascal is not a thinker who is concerned with any proof of the existence of God. However, in his apology, he presents several fragments intending to persuade his readers of the supposed advantages of believing in His existence. Contrary to the evidence presented at different times by different theologians and philosophers, he makes use of an unprecedented argumentation, based not on empirical or metaphysical evidence, but on probability theory, in order to expound his argument, known as Pascal’s wager. This was developed entirely in the ‘Infinite-nothing’ fragment, chosen exactly to highlight the abyssal and insurmountable distance between the Creator and its creature. Its aim was not to rationally prove the necessary existence of God, but to convince insecure Christians and, above all, nonbelievers that there were advantages in betting: not on the existence of some God, but on a hidden God, that is, One who is concealed for all eternity an at an immeasurable distance from man, who, in a perverse desire for self-sufficiency, was deceived into transgressing the only rule he was determined not to break, under penalty of his perishing. Even so, man’s desire prevailed. Since then, man has fallen from a supposed state of absolute knowledge of God-albeit in due proportion-to a state of blindness whereby he and his descendants were barred from any access to divinity without the aid of a mediator. The objective of this dissertation is to carry out a systematic study of the concept of the hidden God and its relationship with Pascal’s wager, in an attempt to find indications in Pascal’s work of what would be the true reconciliation of the fallen man with the hidden God and how this would be brought about. Therefore, we stand by the hypothesis that the wager, as it is presented, must be understood from a dialectical perspective, in which theology and philosophy, faith and reason, the emotional and the rational engage with each other, seeking to uncover the paths that lead to the reconciliation of man with God through the recovery of his lost dignity. Thus, in order to expound Pascal’s ideas dealing with this subject, we analyze, in four chapters: the context of the appearance of pascalian apologetics; the tragic existence of man after the original sin, the fall of man, and the grounds for believing in the existence of a hidden God; Christianity as the true religion and Christ the true mediator; the role of the wager and its relationship with the idea of a hidden God, a legacy of prophet Isaiah, appropriately borrowed by Pascal to symbolize the absence, the transcendence, the abyss and the incommunicability between the ‘finite’ and the ‘Infinite’ |
