L'immortalità dell'anima nell'illuminismo tedesco

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.