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The ethics and morality of Pascal's wager
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<blockquote data-quote="2PhiloVoid" data-source="post: 74258122" data-attributes="member: 167101"><p>Oh well then. If I'm "wrong," despite the fact that I've actually read and understood the entire <em>Pensees</em>, along with Pascal's overall context (...while I have a hunch that you haven't), then I guess I'm just wasting your time. But nevertheless, yes, not only can I discuss this issue, I can provide 'sources' and hermeneutical analysis of Pascal.</p><p></p><p>First off, you really shouldn't eliminate portions of Pascal's Wager material, replacing them with ellipses ... that should be a hermeneutical 'no-no' in this case. And you may want to keep in mind that there has been more than one version and translation of Pascal's <em>Pensees</em>. The translation I like reads slightly differently than the following one, but the following still captures more of the material than you have in your own abbreviated quotation of it. I suggest you take in a 'fuller' reading (although, in my estimation, even that's not full enough contextually since we also need to take into consideration what I call Pascal's <strong>A.A.S.S.</strong> [...short for Argument Against Sociopathic Skepticism] which precedes the Wager and gives initial psychological motive for the Wager) before we attempt to discuss things:</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/pascal_wager.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/pascal_wager.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="2PhiloVoid, post: 74258122, member: 167101"] Oh well then. If I'm "wrong," despite the fact that I've actually read and understood the entire [I]Pensees[/I], along with Pascal's overall context (...while I have a hunch that you haven't), then I guess I'm just wasting your time. But nevertheless, yes, not only can I discuss this issue, I can provide 'sources' and hermeneutical analysis of Pascal. First off, you really shouldn't eliminate portions of Pascal's Wager material, replacing them with ellipses ... that should be a hermeneutical 'no-no' in this case. And you may want to keep in mind that there has been more than one version and translation of Pascal's [I]Pensees[/I]. The translation I like reads slightly differently than the following one, but the following still captures more of the material than you have in your own abbreviated quotation of it. I suggest you take in a 'fuller' reading (although, in my estimation, even that's not full enough contextually since we also need to take into consideration what I call Pascal's [B]A.A.S.S.[/B] [...short for Argument Against Sociopathic Skepticism] which precedes the Wager and gives initial psychological motive for the Wager) before we attempt to discuss things: [URL]https://www.york.ac.uk/depts/maths/histstat/pascal_wager.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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