Language:
German
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie
Angaben zur Quelle:
68,4 (2020) 564-589
Keywords:
Mendelssohn, Moses,
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim,
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Jewish philosophy 18th century
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Jews History
;
Philosophy
Abstract:
There is widespread agreement in scholarship that Moses Mendelssohn lacked historical thinking, an opinion accepted even among Mendelssohn experts. This misjudgment is based on a remark in his Jerusalem against Lessing’s Education of Humankind and surely ignores Mendelssohn’s historical work. I will question the misjudgment by a detour: first, I will ask for whom Lessing wrote his Education of Humankind. Then I will turn to the usually celebrated origin of historical thinking in Semler and Herder and question the historicity of their views. It is only in the 3rd section that I will focus directly on Mendelssohn’s historical work and his truly historical understanding of religion, in agreement with Lessing.
DOI:
10.1515/dzph-2020-0038
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