Abstract Kant’s postulate of the immortality of the soul has received strikingly little attention among Kant scholars, and only very few have regarded it positively. This is not surprising given the numerous problems associated with his argument. However, it is not the only argument for immortality that Kant offers in his critical philosophy. There is also a second argument that differs from the one furnished in the Second Critique and can be found both in the Critique of Pure Reason and later texts from the 1790s. Kant also addresses here many of the problems that interpreters have found with his postulate of immortality in both earlier and later texts. This paper considers the main difficulties associated with the postulate and proposes a coherent interpretation of Kant’s argument. I show that despite the apparent change in his approach to immortality Kant did not in fact substantially alter his position during his critical period.

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康德关于永生的关键论点被重新评估

摘要康德关于灵魂永生的假设很少受到康德学者的关注，只有很少的人对它持肯定态度。考虑到与他的论点相关的众多问题，这不足为奇。然而，这并不是康德在其批判哲学中提出的关于永生的唯一论据。还有另一种论点与《第二批判》中提出的论点不同，可以在《纯理性批判》和1790年代以后的文本中找到。康德在此还解决了口译员在他的较早版本和后来的版本中都以他的不朽假设发现的许多问题。本文考虑了与假设有关的主要困难，并提出了对康德论点的连贯解释。