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T1  - Locke and Leibniz on the Balance of Reasons 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/192039 
T3  - Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning 
A1  - Roinila, Markku 
A2  - Giovanni, Scarafile; Riesenfeld-Tamir, Dana 
PB  - Springer 
Y1  - 2013 
LA  - eng 
AB  - One of the features of John Locke’s moral philosophy is the idea that morality is based on our beliefs concerning the future good. In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding II, xxi, §70, Locke argues that we have to decide between the probability of afterlife and our present temptations. In itself, this kind of decision model is not rare in Early Modern philosophy. Blaise Pascal’s Wager is a famous example of a similar idea of balancing between available options which Marcelo Dascal has discuss... 
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KW  - 611 Philosophy; John Locke; G. W. Leibniz; Moral motivation; Rational decision-making; Weakness of the will 
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