Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical WritingsCambridge University Press, 1997 - 321 Seiten Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, bring the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of "sentiments" (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses). They include a nuanced defense of Leibniz's theodicy and conception of freedom, and examination of the ethics of suicide, an account of the "mixed sentiments" so central to the tragic genre, an hypothesis about weakness of will, an elaboration of the main principles and types of art, and a brief tract on probability theory, aimed at rebutting Hume's skepticism. |
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... able to bring to this study . When Mendelssohn began to hit his stride in the essays contained in the present volume , he was able to make remarkably competent use of works by Sophocles and Plato , Horace and Virgil , Jean Baptiste Du ...
... able to bring to this study . When Mendelssohn began to hit his stride in the essays contained in the present volume , he was able to make remarkably competent use of works by Sophocles and Plato , Horace and Virgil , Jean Baptiste Du ...
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... able to oversee all this distinctly , will nevertheless have an obscure but lively " representation of the perfection of its body " ( p . 46 ) . At this point , the account in the letters of the kinds and sources of pleasure is ...
... able to oversee all this distinctly , will nevertheless have an obscure but lively " representation of the perfection of its body " ( p . 46 ) . At this point , the account in the letters of the kinds and sources of pleasure is ...
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... able to render the most terrifying or unjust events pleasant by imitating them in some medium ( stage , canvas , marble ) that both 11 In acknowledging this revision , Mendelssohn concedes that his criticism , in the letters on ...
... able to render the most terrifying or unjust events pleasant by imitating them in some medium ( stage , canvas , marble ) that both 11 In acknowledging this revision , Mendelssohn concedes that his criticism , in the letters on ...
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... is for the inner sense " ( p . 196 ) , art often is able to present the former as a means of preparing the way for a depiction of the latter . 15 type of sublimity . An expression or representation is naive. xxiv Introduction.
... is for the inner sense " ( p . 196 ) , art often is able to present the former as a means of preparing the way for a depiction of the latter . 15 type of sublimity . An expression or representation is naive. xxiv Introduction.
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Inhalt
Preface | 1 |
On sentiments | 5 |
Dialogues | 94 |
Rhapsody or additions to the Letters on sentiments | 129 |
On the main principles of the fine arts and sciences | 167 |
On the sublime and naive in the fine sciences | 190 |
On probability | 231 |
On evidence in metaphysical sciences | 249 |
On the ability to know the ability to feel and the ability to desire | 305 |
what does to enlighten mean? | 309 |
Index | 316 |
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