Phaedon
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| Author | Moses Mendelssohn |
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| Original title | Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele |
| Country | Germany |
| Language | German |
| Subject | Immortality |
| Published | 1767 |
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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.
Phaedon is a defense of immortality. Mendelssohn argues that the soul must be indestructible because it is a simple substance.
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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