LEADER 05872nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910960168303321 005 20240417221840.0 010 $a9786613895165 010 $a9781283582711 010 $a1283582716 010 $a9780252093999 010 $a0252093992 035 $a(CKB)2670000000241193 035 $a(OCoLC)809032422 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10593750 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000711506 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11416613 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000711506 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10693571 035 $a(PQKB)10053152 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3414078 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse23635 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3414078 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10593750 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL389516 035 $a(OCoLC)923495521 035 $a(Perlego)2554184 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000241193 100 $a20110907d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLast works /$fMoses Mendelssohn ; translated, with an introduction and commentary by Bruce Rosenstock 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aUrbana $cUniversity of Illinois Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aTranslated from the German. 311 08$a9780252036873 311 08$a0252036875 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 8 $aMoses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was the central figure in the emancipation of European Jewry. His intellect, judgment, and tact won the admiration and friendship of contemporaries as illustrious as Johann Gottfried Herder, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, and Immanuel Kant. His enormously influential Jerusalem (1783) made the case for religious tolerance, a cause he worked for all his life. Last Works includes, for the first time complete and in a single volume, the English translation of Morning Hours: Lectures on the Existence of God (1785) and To the Friends of Lessing (1786). Bruce Rosenstock has also provided an historical introduction and an extensive philosophical commentary to both texts. At the center of Mendelssohn's last works is his friendship with Lessing. Mendelssohn hoped to show that he, a Torah-observant Jew, and Lessing, Germany's leading dramatist, had forged a life-long friendship that held out the promise of a tolerant and enlightened culture in which religious strife would be a thing of the past. Lessing's death in 1781 was a severe blow to Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn wrote his last two works to commemorate Lessing and to carry on the work to which they had dedicated much of their lives. Morning Hours treats a range of major philosophical topics: the nature of truth, the foundations of human knowledge, the basis of our moral and aesthetic powers of judgment, the reality of the external world, and the grounds for a rational faith in a providential deity. It is also a key text for Mendelssohn's readings of Spinoza. 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