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The ethics and morality of Pascal's wager
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<blockquote data-quote="Silmarien" data-source="post: 74211561" data-attributes="member: 395596"><p>Pascal was a 17th century skeptic, and pretty explicitly at odds with attempts to rationally demonstrate metaphysical doctrines. His work, on top of being published posthumously, ended up on the Catholic List of Prohibited Books, so it's a little odd to argue that its intent was to scare people into anything. It was obviously considered a danger to the faith.</p><p></p><p>Appealing to a "burden of proof" over something like the Wager is also somewhat strange, given that his thesis was that Christianity was reasonable but not provable. The whole point is that in the absence of compelling rational reasons to fall on one side or the other, decisions need to be made on other grounds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silmarien, post: 74211561, member: 395596"] Pascal was a 17th century skeptic, and pretty explicitly at odds with attempts to rationally demonstrate metaphysical doctrines. His work, on top of being published posthumously, ended up on the Catholic List of Prohibited Books, so it's a little odd to argue that its intent was to scare people into anything. It was obviously considered a danger to the faith. Appealing to a "burden of proof" over something like the Wager is also somewhat strange, given that his thesis was that Christianity was reasonable but not provable. The whole point is that in the absence of compelling rational reasons to fall on one side or the other, decisions need to be made on other grounds. [/QUOTE]
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