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Confidence
Belief overview
Possível imortalidade e responsabilidade moral
Alguns deístas admitem vida futura ou juízo moral, embora sem detalhamento revelado uniforme.
2
Supportive
1
Contrary
0
Neutral
O que é: Parte importante do deísmo admite alguma forma de continuidade moral da pessoa, recompensa, juízo ou imortalidade, mas sem consenso detalhado.
Como a posição entende: A ideia costuma ser pensada em ligação com justiça divina e ordem moral do universo, não com escatologias reveladas extensas.
Base e contexto: Esse tema aparece em autores de religião natural e em apologias morais do deísmo.
Debates e variações: Há grande diversidade: alguns defendem imortalidade da alma; outros permanecem mais reservados.
Documentary evidence
Supportive
Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography and moral writings
A source for practical morality and rational theism in the Atlantic world.
Reference: Benjamin Franklin, autobiography and moral writings.
Content: Franklin expresses rational theism, the moral usefulness of religion, and reserve toward confessional dogmatisms.
Use in debate: It is useful for rational morality and moderate civil deism.
Rousseau, Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar
An important text on natural religion and moral conscience.
Reference: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar in Emile.
Content: Rousseau defends a religious relation grounded in conscience, natural order, and moral feeling, together with a critique of rigid dogmatic systems.
Use in debate: It is an important source for moral deism and natural religion.
Contrary
Joseph Butler, Analogy of Religion
A relevant Christian answer to English deism.
Reference: Joseph Butler, Analogy of Religion.
Content: Butler argues that Christian revelation is not irrational and that nature already contains difficulties analogous to those criticized by deists.
Use in debate: It is one of the most important classical responses to English deism.