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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807686303321

Autore

Mendelssohn Moses <1729-1786.>

Titolo

Last works / / Moses Mendelssohn ; translated, with an introduction and commentary by Bruce Rosenstock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-58271-6

9786613895165

0-252-09399-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (265 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RosenstockBruce (Bruce Benjamin)

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

God - Proof

God (Judaism) - Knowableness

Jewish philosophy - 18th century

Faith and reason - Judaism

Enlightenment - Germany

Pantheism - History

Jews - Germany - Intellectual life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the German.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction to the Translation -- Notes on the Translation -- For Further Reading -- Morning Hours or, Lectures on the Existence of God -- Preliminary Remarks -- Part One Epistemic Groundwork, Concerning Truth, Appearance, and Error -- Lecture I  What Is Truth? -- Lecture II  Cause. Effect. Ground. Power. -- Lecture III  Self-Evidence-Immediate Knowledge. Rational Knowledge-Natural Knowledge. -- Lecture IV  Truth and Illusion. -- Lecture V  Existence. Waking. Dreams. Delusion. -- Lecture VI  The Connection of Our Ideas. Idealism. -- Lecture VII  Continuation. Quarrel of Idealists with the Dualists. Truth Drive and Approbatio -- Part Two  Systematic Exposition of the Concepts Related to the Existence of God -- Lecture VIII  Introduction. Importance of the Investigation. On the Principle of Basedow's Pri -- Lecture IX  Certainty of the Pure and Applied Doctrine of Magnitudes. Comparison with the Cer -- Lecture X  Allegorical Dream. Reason and Common Sense. Proofs



of the Existence of God, Accord -- Lecture XI  Epicureanism. Luck. Coincidence. Number of Causes and Effects, without  End, with -- Lecture XII  Sufficient Reason Grounding the Contingent in the Necessary. The Former Is Somewh -- Lecture XIII  Spinozism. Pantheism. All Is One and One Is All. Refutation. -- Lecture XIV  Continued Quarrel with the Pantheists. Convergence, Point of Union with Them. Inn -- Lecture XV  Lessing. His Service to the Religion of Reason. His Thoughts Concerning Purified -- Lecture XVI  Explanation of the Concepts of Necessity, Randomness, Independence, and Dependen -- Lecture XVII  A priori Grounds for Proof of the Existence of a Most Perfect, Necessary, Indep -- To the Friends of Lessing -- Notes -- References -- Index.