Wagering like Pascal
Criticizing the Wager
Choosing a Worldview Right for You
Chapter 24: Success and Happiness in Life
Finding Enough in The Race for More
Aiming for True Success
Mastering the Conditions of Success
Concluding with a Note on Happiness
13 Part 9: The Part of Tens Chapter 25: Ten Great Philosophers Socrates Plato Aristotle Saint Thomas Aquinas William of Ockham René Descartes Immanuel Kant G.W.F. Hegel Soren Kierkegaard Bertrand Russell Chapter 26: Ten Great Questions Is Philosophy Practical? Can We Ever Really Know Anything? Is There Ultimately an Objectivity to Ethics? Who Am I? Is Happiness Really Possible in Our World? Is There, After All, a God? What Is the Good Life? Why Is So Much Suffering in the World? Does a Tree Falling Solo Make a Sound? What’s Stronger: Reason or its Opposite?
14 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 5TABLE 5-1 Examples of Three Belief Categories
2 Chapter 8TABLE 8-1 Humanity’s Relationship to TruthTABLE 8-2 Two Modes of Experiencing Beauty
3 Chapter 12TABLE 12-1 Philosophical Views on the Question of Free WillTABLE 12-2 Philosophical Views on the Question of Free Will
4 Chapter 23TABLE 23-1 An Example of a Bet to Illustrate the Expected Value FormulaTABLE 23-2 The Issue of Theism and Atheism Cast as a Gambling Situation
5 Chapter 26TABLE 26-1 Is There a God?
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