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The ethics and morality of Pascal's wager
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<blockquote data-quote="Silmarien" data-source="post: 74221710" data-attributes="member: 395596"><p>Of course. That doesn't make scientific concepts like falsifiability apply accurately to the way historians actually work with records.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>In that it's in the realm of questions beyond the reach of empirical investigation, I would agree.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I assume you're referring specifically to religion, in which case the complication of revelation comes in. I would say that's less a matter of people making up answers to metaphysical questions, and more a pre-rational commitment underlying everything else. I don't really see it as a problem, though.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Why does it not help the idea of Christianity at all?</p><p></p><p>From what you've written, you seem to take a very subjectivist approach to these questions, which is obviously a very different take on autonomy and morality than what Christianity teaches. With Pascal's Wager, we're dealing with potential consequences of being wrong, and it seems to me that if Christianity is correct, then that whole method of valoration becomes questionable.</p><p></p><p>The thing with Pascal's Wager is that you've made your bet. That's fine, but the possibility of being wrong is attached to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Silmarien, post: 74221710, member: 395596"] Of course. That doesn't make scientific concepts like falsifiability apply accurately to the way historians actually work with records. In that it's in the realm of questions beyond the reach of empirical investigation, I would agree. I assume you're referring specifically to religion, in which case the complication of revelation comes in. I would say that's less a matter of people making up answers to metaphysical questions, and more a pre-rational commitment underlying everything else. I don't really see it as a problem, though. Why does it not help the idea of Christianity at all? From what you've written, you seem to take a very subjectivist approach to these questions, which is obviously a very different take on autonomy and morality than what Christianity teaches. With Pascal's Wager, we're dealing with potential consequences of being wrong, and it seems to me that if Christianity is correct, then that whole method of valoration becomes questionable. The thing with Pascal's Wager is that you've made your bet. That's fine, but the possibility of being wrong is attached to it. [/QUOTE]
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