{"id":53026,"date":"2024-02-01T20:28:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:28:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=53026"},"modified":"2024-04-19T19:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T17:05:13","slug":"a-new-pascals-wager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/a-new-pascals-wager\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Pascal\u2019s Wager?"},"content":{"rendered":"Four hundred years ago, a great personality of modern intellectual life in Europe was born. Blaise Pascal was not only an inventor and scientist but a spiritual researcher who can still inspire us today and perhaps rouse us to take the next step.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in central France. He demonstrated unusual intellectual abilities at an early age. As early as the age of eight, his father began to instruct him in scientific matters, particularly mathematics. He wrote his first scientific treatises at the age of eleven. The work from his youth contributed to advances in projective geometry, and a theorem was named after him. At the age of 19, to help his father, he developed the first calculating machine of modern times, the Pascaline, which could perform additions<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four hundred years ago, a great personality of modern intellectual life in Europe was born. Blaise Pascal was not only an inventor and scientist but a spiritual researcher who can still inspire us today and perhaps rouse us to take the next step. Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in central France. He demonstrated unusual intellectual abilities at an early age. As early as the age of eight, his father began to instruct him in scientific matters, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17570,"featured_media":52322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9115,8790],"tags":[11405,11487,8824],"class_list":["post-53026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-consciousness","category-society-en","tag-2023-50-en","tag-en2024-5","tag-spotlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}