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    The alternation of confirmations and doubts concerning th... — Carmelics
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    The alternation of confirmations and doubts concerning the immortality of the soul is part of God's providential design

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    • 1.There has always been and always will be an alternation of confirmations and doubts concerning the immortality of the soul
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    • 2.This alternation is a vicissitude of hopes and despair within the providential regime of the world established by God
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    • 1.Persistent epistemic disagreement about a proposition is better explained by the proposition's undecidability than by divine orchestration.
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    • 2.Hume's argument in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion shows that attributing ambiguous phenomena to providence commits the fallacy of retrofitting design onto neutral evidence.
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    • 3.If God providentially sustains doubt about immortality, God undermines the moral incentive structure that immortality-based ethics requires, creating a self-defeating theology.
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    • 1.Pomponazzi argued in De Immortalitate Animae that the soul's mortality follows demonstrably from Aristotelian naturalism, making the alternation a contingent historical fact, not providential necessity.
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    • 2.A contingent historical pattern of intellectual disagreement cannot be identified with providential design without a prior independent argument that God exists and governs intellectual history.
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    For Cardano, human souls are individual principles of self-awareness. Selfhood is the principal argument in favour of their immortality. However, in defending the immortal character of human souls, Cardano also relies on proofs of a more pragmatic and theological nature. Hope in “the immortality of the soul” was implanted in human beings by God, therefore it cannot be considered as a deluded expectation. In common people God instilled this hope “through religions (leges),” in wise people, “throu
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