Ebook: Moses Mendelssohn and the Religious Enlightenment
Author: David Sorkin Arthur Hertzberg
- Series: Jewish Thinkers
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Halban
- Language: English
- epub
Moses Mendelssohn (17291786) was the premier Jewish thinker of his day and one of the best-known figures of the German Enlightenment, earning the sobriquet the Socrates of Berlin’. He was thoroughly involved in the central issue of Enlightenment religious thinking: the inevitable conflict between reason and revelation in an age contending with individual rights and religious toleration. He did not aspire to a comprehensive philosophy of Judaism, since he thought human reason was limited, but he did see Judaism as compatible with toleration and rights. David Sorkin offers a close study of Mendelssohn’s complete writings, treating the German, and the often-neglected Hebrew writings, as a single corpus and arguing that Mendelssohn’s two spheres of endeavour were entirely consistent.
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