Language:
German
Year of publication:
1995
Titel der Quelle:
Aschkenas; Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur der Juden
Angaben zur Quelle:
5,1 (1995) 121-129
Keywords:
Cohen, Hermann,
Abstract:
Describes Cohen's defense of Judaism as a universal ethical religion. In 1880 he published a response to Treitschke's antisemitic manifesto, and in 1888 he delivered an expert opinion in the trial of a member of the Böckel movement who had defamed the Talmud. He set his view of Judaism against that of the "cultural Protestants" who viewed the prophets as the source of an "ethics of inwardness" which had been taken over by Christianity, whereas post-biblical Judaism had, in their view, become narrow and rejected. In the preface to his essay "Religion und Sittlichkeit" (1907), Cohen warned that a society that tolerates hatred and shuts out a religious group is a sick society and cannot lay claim to true morality.
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