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Often appears with: religious persecution and toleration · youth in business · warburton · the problem of evil and theodicy · scripture and its interpretation · public reputation management · problem of vice · parents and children · parental approval · moses and the pentateuch · moral evil · matter, motion, and cause
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Voltaire summarizes Bishop Warburton’s claim that the Pentateuch lacks belief in the soul’s immortality and that Moses’ mission was therefore divine, then criticizes his reasoning and character.
OF WARBURTON'S PARADOX ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL Warburton, editor and commentator of Shakespeare and Bishop of Gloucester, making use of English freedom, and abuse of the custom of hurling insults at one's adversaries, has composed four volumes to prove that the immortality of the soul was never announced in the Pentateuch, and to conclude from this same proof that Moses' mission is divine. Here is the precis …
The discourse extends natural evil to moral evil, challenges “anthropomorphites” to explain vice without appealing to the first cause, and then stages a dispute where Demea accuses Philo of undermining orthodoxy.
can never prove the two former unmixed principles; and the uniformity and steadiness of general laws seem to oppose the third. The fourth, therefore, seems by far the most probable. What I have said concerning natural evil will apply to moral, with little or no variation; and we have no more reason to infer, that the rectitude of the Supreme Being resembles human rectitude, than that his benevolence resembles the hu…
Keith’s proposal is rejected by Franklin’s father on grounds of Franklin’s youth and cost, but his father later allows Franklin to return to Philadelphia and advises him to avoid religious and satirical trouble.
in setting up, I being, in his opinion, too young to be trusted with the management of a business so important, and for which the preparation must be so expensive. My friend and companion Collins, who was a clerk in the post-office, pleas'd with the account I gave him of my new country, determined to go thither also; and, while I waited for my father's determination, he set out before me by land to Rhode Island, lea…