以下は、ある外国映画のシナリオなのですが、どなたか、的確な日本語に訳していただけないでしょうか？よろしくお願い致します。AとBの二人の会話です。
A: Are you interested in mathematics?
B： It’s increasingly important for a philosopher. In linguistics, for example.
But even basics things.
Pascal’s arithmetical triangle is connected to his wager.
That’s what makes Pascal so amazingly modern.
Mathematician and Philosopher are one.
A: Good old Pascal.
B: You surprised?
A： Funny you mention him. I’m just now rereading him.
B： And?
A： I’m very disappointed.
B: Go on. I’m really interested.
A: Oh, I don’t know. I feel I know him almost by heart, yet he tells me nothing.
It all seems so empty.
I’m a Catholic, or at least I try to be, but he doesn’t fit in with my notion of Catholicism.
It’s precisely because I’m a Christian that his austerity offends me.
If that’s what Christianity is about, then I’m an atheist.
Are you still a Marxist?
B: Absolutely. For a Communist, Pascal’s wager is very relevant today.
Personally, I very much doubt that history has any meaning.
Yet I wager that it has, so I’m in a Pascalian situation.
Hypothesis A: Society and politics are meaningless.
Hypothesis B: History has meaning.
I’m not at all sure B is more likely to be true than A.
More likely the reverse.
Let’s even suppose B has a 10 percent chance of being true, and A has 80 percent.
Nevertheless…
I have no choice but to opt for B, because only the hypothesis that history has meaning…
allows me to go on living.
Suppose I bet on A, and B was true, despite the lesser odds.
I’d have thrown away my life.
So I must choose B to justify my life and actions.
There’s an 80 percent chance I’m wrong, but that doesn’t matter.
A: Mathematical hope.
Potential gain divided by probability.
With your hypothesis B, though the probability is slight, the possible gain is infinite.
In your case, a meaning to life.
In Pascal’s, eternal salvation.
B: It was Gorky, Lenin or may be Mayakovsky who said about the Russian revolution
that the situation forced them to choose the one chance in a thousand.
Because hope became infinitely greater if you took that chance than if you didn’t take it.
以上、よろしくお願いいたします。
