Kant’s achievements regarding the two main questions of rational theology, i. e., the existence of God and the immortality of the soul, were not a question of merely theoretical reason, but rather the point of arrival of a pure practical reason. By conceiving the question of immortality as the culmination of the moral progress suggested by Kant’s transcendental philosophy, Karl Leonhard Reinhold’s Letters on the Kantian Philosophy and Ludwig Heinrich Jakob’s Attempt at a Demonstration of Immortality from the Concept of Duty, set out once again – albeit by different routes – Kant’s achievements in the terms of a proper rediscovery of the moral nature of that problem of reason. They represent two significant attempts to show that the shift from a speculative conception of immortality to its practical claim was possible and urgent.
A Problem of Reason: The Immortality of the Soul in the aetas kantiana
Rumore, Paola
2024-01-01
Abstract
Kant’s achievements regarding the two main questions of rational theology, i. e., the existence of God and the immortality of the soul, were not a question of merely theoretical reason, but rather the point of arrival of a pure practical reason. By conceiving the question of immortality as the culmination of the moral progress suggested by Kant’s transcendental philosophy, Karl Leonhard Reinhold’s Letters on the Kantian Philosophy and Ludwig Heinrich Jakob’s Attempt at a Demonstration of Immortality from the Concept of Duty, set out once again – albeit by different routes – Kant’s achievements in the terms of a proper rediscovery of the moral nature of that problem of reason. They represent two significant attempts to show that the shift from a speculative conception of immortality to its practical claim was possible and urgent.
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