Concept
Immortality of the Soul
Also known as belief in immortality, faith in immortality, immortality of your soul, believing in immortality, without believing in immortality, There is no virtue if there is no immortality.
Immortality of the Soul is the belief Ivan's moral argument places at the root of love and virtue. In Zossima's cell, Miusov reports Ivan's claim that without belief in immortality the moral law changes into its opposite. Zossima tells Ivan that the question still frets his heart and has not been answered.
II-VII. A Young Man Bent On A Career
Rakitin attacks Ivan's formula and argues that humanity can find the power to live for virtue without believing in immortality, through freedom, equality, and fraternity.
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