Author Language German Published 1767 | Country Germany Subject Immortality | |
Original title Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele | ||
Phaedon (German: Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele), published in 1767, is a book by the Jewish Enlightenment philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, in which Mendelssohn offers a defense of immortality.
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Summary
Phaedon is a defense of immortality. Mendelssohn argues that the soul must be indestructible because it is a simple substance.
Reception
One of Mendelssohn's most famous books, Phaedon won him fame. Immanuel Kant criticized Mendelssohn's argument for immortality in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (1787), at B413–15.
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