PASCAL’S WAGER – FOR MODERN STUDENTS (HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL, GENERAL THEORETICAL, WORLDVIEW AND DIDACTIC ASPECTS). PART 2

Author(s): Gusev D.A., Minaychenkova E.I., Gorbunova Y.A., Pustovoitov J.L., Rykina A.A., Suslov A.V.

Rubric: Methodological research

DOI: 10.21777/2500-2112-2024-3-90-102

Release: 2024-3 (48)

Pages: 90-102

Keywords: teaching philosophy, the main issue of philosophy, Pascal’s wager, worldview searches, metaphysical asymmetry

Annotation: The relevance of the topic lies in the fact that the general university philosophy course has a huge ideological potential, which, according to pedagogical experience, which is hardly used in modern educational technolo- gies. The object of the research is the didactic features of the students’ study of the «basic issue of philosophy». The subject of the study is the presentation of Pascal’s wager to students as the basis for a person’s ideological choice. The aim of the work is to substantiate the metaphysical asymmetry of this choice. The research methods are intellectual experiment, comparative analysis, inference by analogy and empirical generalization. The result of the work and one of its conclusions is the assertion of the priority of a person’s religious choice against his secular orientation. The field of application of the research results is multidimensional educational interactions and didactic strategies in both secondary and higher education. The second part of the article examines the di- dactic and ideological aspects of the study of the famous Pascal’s wager by the students in the course of general philosophy. Pascal’s wager is an almost mathematically accurate answer to the question of which life navigation system is better for a person to choose: the one, which is oriented towards materialism and atheism or the one, which is oriented towards philosophical idealism and theism.

Bibliography: Gusev D.A., Minaychenkova E.I., Gorbunova Y.A., Pustovoitov J.L., Rykina A.A., Suslov A.V. PASCAL’S WAGER – FOR MODERN STUDENTS (HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL, GENERAL THEORETICAL, WORLDVIEW AND DIDACTIC ASPECTS). PART 2 // Education Resources and Technologies. – 2024. – № 3 (48). – С. 90-102. doi: 10.21777/2500-2112-2024-3-90-102