Potton, Ambroise

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Dominican

Added because Vermeersch reports d'Annibale's ascription to him of the system of compensation (Theologia moralis I, n. 357).

His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It

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Compensationist
Counted among them by 4 of our authors	Marc, Institutiones I, n. 86; Wouters, Manuale I, n. 225; Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 344; Merkelbach, Summa II, excursus on the moral systems
“IV. The system of compensation or of sufficient reason, whose origin is ascribed by C. d'Annibale to Father Potton , O. Pr., does not permit the use of the principle, A doubtful law does not oblige, simply, but only then when a cause excusing from the obligation of the law is proportioned to the gravity and probability of the law: the more probable and the graver the law is, the greater cause is required in order that you may permit the danger of material transgression; that danger is an evil which can be permitted on account of a proportionate good effect, but not otherwise.”Vermeersch reports that Cardinal d'Annibale ascribes to him the origin of the system of compensation	Vermeersch, Theologia moralis I, n. 357
“Since not a few difficulties are found in the aforesaid systems, certain authors devised a new system for solving doubt from the principle of sufficient reason, or compensation: thus, among others, Manier, Laloux, Potton.”Tanquerey sets out his system of compensation and weighs it	Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 415
“On Compensative Probabilism (added by the 1884 editor, P.-F. Ecalle) … [We shall expound this pseudo-probabilism from the writings of three authors who professed it, namely D. Manier, D. Laloux, and Rev. P. Potton The first author of this system seems to have been D. Manier, priest of the Congregation of St. Sulpice, who laid down its principles in the Compendium philosophiae for the use of seminaries, t. III, Ethica, dissert. 3, de Conscientia, edit. 1859. — The same theory is expounded, but less orderly, in the posthumous work of D. Laloux, priest of the same congregation, which was published in 1862 by D. Orssand, priest of the diocese of Montpellier. — After these Rev. P. Maria Ambrosius Potton of the Order of Preachers published, in 1874, a work entitled De theoria probabilitatis, and in the following year a little book written in French under the title De la théorie du probabilisme, in which he tried to demonstrate the truth of the same doctrine, but rather entangled and obscured it with multiplied arguments, either beside the point or not sufficiently connected.”Ecalle: he set out the system of compensation (1874), which Ecalle rejects	Ecalle (the 1884 editor of Billuart), Dissertation VII (Ecalle’s), On compensative probabilism, n. 1

Where Our Authors Discuss Him

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“set forth the system of compensation, in the year 1874”

Tanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 52

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