Phaedon

This article is about the 1767 book. For people with this given name, see Phaedon (name). Phaedon is also a genus of beetles in subfamily Chrysomelinae.

Phaedon

Author	Moses Mendelssohn
Original title	Phädon oder über die Unsterblichkeit der Seele
Country	Germany
Language	German
Subject	Immortality
Published	1767
Media type	Print
ISBN	978-1141640836

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.^[1]

Summary

Phaedon is a defense of immortality.^[1] Mendelssohn argues that the soul must be indestructible because it is a simple substance.^[2]

Reception

One of Mendelssohn's most famous books,^[2] Phaedon won him fame.^[1] Immanuel Kant criticized Mendelssohn's argument for immortality in the second edition of the Critique of Pure Reason (1787), at B413–15.

References

Footnotes

1 2 3 Goodman 2005. p. 585.
1 2 Popkind 1999. p. 556.

Bibliography

Books

Goodman, Lenn E. (2005). Honderich, Ted, ed. The Oxford Companion to Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-926479-1.
Popkin, Richard H. (1999). Audi, Robert, ed. The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.

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