The Debate on the Immortality of the Soul in the German Enlightenment
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Abstract
The paper presents the main stages of the debate concerning the immateriality of the soul in 18th-century German philosophy, with a special focus on three central moments. The first one is Wolff’s attempt to provide a rational demonstration of immortality in the frame of his rational psychology; the second moment concerns the criticisms of such a claim raised by Meier and Crusius, and their ‘moral’ approach to the question; the third one considers the presence of the issue in Hißmann’s psychological materialism, and its theological implications.
Keywords
- Rational and Empirical Psychology
- Psychological Ma- terialism
- Rational and Moral Proofs of Immortality
- Christian Wolff
- Christian August Crusius
- Georg Friedrich Meier
- Michael Hißmann
