Moses Mendelssohn [[electronic resource] ] : Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible

• Autore: Gottlieb Michah
• Pubblicazione: Lebanon, : Brandeis University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.3
• Soggetto topico: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Christianity and other religions - Judaism; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism; Judaism; Judaism - Relations - Christianity; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity; Judaism -- Works to 1900; Philosophy, German - 18th century; Philosophy, German -- 18th century; Judaism - Relations - Christianity - 18th century; Christianity and other religions; Philosophy, German; Philosophy & Religion; Philosophy
• Persona (resp. second.): ArkushAllan; SacksElias; GottliebMichah; BowmanCurtis
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I | Polemical Writings; The Lavater Affair and Related Documents(1769-1773); 1 | Lavater's Dedication to Mendelssohn (1769); 2 | Open Letter to Lavater (1769); 3 | From "Counter-Reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" (1770); 4 | Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773; 5 | Letter to "a Man of Rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar),26 January 1770; Jerusalem and Related Documents (1782-1783); 6 | From the Preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum (1782) ; 7 | The Search for Light and Right in a Letter to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn, on the Occasion of his Remarkable Preface to Menasseh ben Israel(1782)8 | Mörschel's Postscript (1782); 9 | From Jerusalem, or on Religious Powerand Judaism (1783); 10 | From Letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg; 11 | From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn (1785); 12 | From Morning Hours, or Lectures on the Existence of God (1785); 13 | From To Lessing's Friends (1786); Part II | Writings on the Bible; 14 | From Introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes (1770) ; 15 | Introduction to Translation of the Psalms (1783)16 | From Letter to August Hennings; 17 | From Light for the Path (1783); 18 | Selections from the Bi'ur (1780-83); Part III | Miscellany; 19 | On the Religious Legitimacy of Studying Logic; 20 | An Ontological Proof for God's Existence; 21 | A Cosmological Proof for God's Existence; 22 | A Proof for the Immortality of the Soul; 23 | A Rational Foundation for Ethics; 24 | On the Possibility of Miracles; 25 | On the Reliability of Miracles; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy
• Titolo autorizzato: Moses Mendelssohn
• ISBN: 1-283-30916-5; 9786613309167; 1-61168-214-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781979203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry & The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought