Blaise Pascal's Wager

Religion has always been a major part of mankind’s history. Since the very beginning of the human race, people have been worshipping and have dedicated their lives to God; the earliest kind of worshipping can be traced back to about 295,000 years BCE. Over the years, humanity has assisted to the creation of numerous religions, however, with the development of modern science and the several researches, people slowly start to lose faith and need more proves to believe in God’s existence. In a progressive society like ours, people tend to ask themselves “Is God real?” We are going to try to answer this existential question by studying in a first part Blaise Pascal’s Wager theory to support God’s existence, Immanuel Kant’s moral philosophy in a

Being able to prove His existence mathematically convinced a significant number of people; however, as Pascal said, it is just hypotheses and there is no definite proofs of God’s existence in his formula, it is only a probability. Immanuel Kant found a way to contradict the

The overman is incredibly interesting, yet the most controversial thesis about a superior power in history. This book is mainly known for the misinterpretation of Nietzsche’s “God is dead” (1891). The Catholic church still misinterprets this sentences nowadays. By that, the German philosopher meant that humans are destroying the religion and its Judeo-Christian moral values; he thinks that theists are simply naive. “All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood, and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome men?” (Nietzsche, 1891). Friedrich Nietzsche claims an exemplary human has to pass through self-realization and shouldn’t rely on a God to create his/her own identity. The overman is not the evolution of mankind, it is a man that is able to go beyond what he currently is; “one whose inexhaustible fertility and power keep up the faith in men”. (Nietzsche, 1891). He believes that everyone can become the overman with disregard for happiness, reason, virtues, justice and compassion. “Men is a rope, tied between beast and overman—a rope over an abyss…” (Nietzsche, 1891). To the German thinker, the creation of new morals would engender an overman to