So the ‘real distinction’ Descartes thought he had proved—Cartesian dualism—does not die easily. The reader is free to try to protect it against the line of thought of this chapter and the preceding two. For what it is worth, Kant himself tried to leave room for the immortality of the soul. His rather feeble reason is that we need to suppose that goodness brings happiness, and since it does not do so always or even reliably in this life, there had better be another life in which it does.
