Immortality (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Michael Maher · 1913
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By immortality people usually mean this doctrine: after death, the human soul lives on in endless conscious existence. Alongside the question of God's existence, it forms the greatest issue philosophy has to deal with. Rational psychology and the philosophy of religion claim it first, though it also brushes against other philosophical fields and a few natural sciences.
Some sort of future life has been believed in, it seems, nearly everywhere and always. Here and there individuals have rejected it, and some religions and philosophical systems clash with it logically yet still have followers. Still, views among different peoples as to the life beyond the grave may have been vague and inconsistent. Yet belief in a future existence seems so far hard to root out from the human race as a whole.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Michael Maher |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |