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PG *is* a nominalist, I think. Last year he made a thread exhorting the superiority of Pascal, who at very best is totally discredited. One might even argue that he's properly unorthodox.
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https://www.cathinfo.com/crisis-in-the-church/pascals-provincial-letters/15/
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He argued against Ligourian moralism and seemed to view Pascal's Wager as a perfectly acceptable proof of God.
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With that sort of starting point, no wonder he has a disdain for scholasticism. Philosophically, this guy is a sixteenth century Protestant.
No, I believe that you or someone else thrusted pascal's wager onto me as a means of misdirection for my rejection of the probabilist mentality inherent in probabiliorism and certainly ligouri's more liberal version of it, when I had mentioned nothing of pascals wager. Pascal is important for his courage and his clarity regarding the growing problem that is collegiality, only in its 16th century form(the jesuit moralists).
And, I am not alone in my admiration for pascal. Pascals letters is an eye opening work on par in my opinion with open letter by the archbishop. Peter kreeft even considers pascal the greatest catholic apologist since st. augustine. And, until I have personally read Jansens(a catholic bishop) original augustinus(not likely), I am not going to give the jesuit's pope benefit of doubt, which is the only argument against pascal.
The pope condemned certain formulated propositions arguably(by pascal and others) not found in augustinus. Because, infallibility doesn't extend into a judgement of another man's interior forum(janen's "sense" of what he meant by the words contained in his book) particularly when the man has long been dead, which is what the pope argued and enacted. The pope did not declare and define that these five propositions were taken "word for word" from augustinus(denzinger 1098. They were taken "in the sense understood by that same cornelius". While pascal agreed with the popes condemnation of the propositions, Pascal and others did not agree that they are to be found even in the sense implied in jansen's work augustinus, whilst word for word was never even the matter of contention. And, neither did pascal and others agree that the pope is as a doctrine infallible regarding implied sense, which the pope for a time argued and even tried temporarily but unsuccessfully to enforce.
This all begs the question; if such is the popes strongest argument(sense/internal forum), are the errors really contained in augustinus? That particular answer is not of much importance to me. But, I will certainly not let such doubt tarnish the legacy or hinder the influence of pascal, despite jesuit wishes. "By ones fruits you know them". And, in my opinion, the fruits of pascal are good.