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Irrational Reason and Rational Faith: Pascal and the Structural Limits of Rationality

Irrational Reason and Rational Faith: Pascal and the Structural Limits of Rationality

Kriger, Boris

Paperback

Series: Philosophical Questions

PhilosophyLogic

ISBN13: 9798243266680
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 9 2026
Pages: 190
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Can faith be defended without surrendering its mystery? This book explores the unresolved tension between logic and belief through the figure of Blaise Pascal-mathematician, physicist, philosopher, and Christian thinker-whose life embodied the collision of intellect and spirit. Refusing both dogmatic rationalism and blind submission, the book follows Pascal's wager, his scientific rigor, his mystical experience, and his philosophical fragments to map a deeper landscape: one where truth lives not within the boundaries of reason or faith alone, but along the contested edge between them. Combining historical insight, contemporary reflection, and existential urgency, this work is a guide for those who seek clarity without reduction, and meaning without illusion.

This book examines Pascal's Wager as a boundary case in the philosophy of probability and rational choice, rather than as a religious or theological argument. The central claim is that the standard probabilistic analysis of the wager fails not merely due to technical issues such as infinite utilities or competing hypotheses, but because it presupposes a single evaluative system where none is structurally available.

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