What's Wrong With Pascal's Wager?
Walter Kaufmann's Critique
According to Walter Kaufmann, the problem with Pascal’s wager is that one could imagine various scenarios in which the wager does not work out quite the way one would have hoped. Imagine a scenario in which God condemns anyone who believes in or obeys God on the basis of Pascal’s wager. Kaufkmann says God can “out-Luther Luther.” The point being that th…
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