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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... concept of taste , and on the indeterminacy of the concepts involved in the free play between imagination and understanding . Mendelssohn concludes this essay with a consideration of the sort of naive expressions that are particularly ...
... concept of taste , and on the indeterminacy of the concepts involved in the free play between imagination and understanding . Mendelssohn concludes this essay with a consideration of the sort of naive expressions that are particularly ...
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... concept , be it a static or non - static quantity ( extension or temporal measurement ) or a quality of things ( pp . 257 , 271 ) . In both cases , the certainty of the analysis is based upon the underlying identity of the content of ...
... concept , be it a static or non - static quantity ( extension or temporal measurement ) or a quality of things ( pp . 257 , 271 ) . In both cases , the certainty of the analysis is based upon the underlying identity of the content of ...
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... concept " ) that , for example , we have a triangle rather than a square in front of us from which a set of ... concepts so customary that it has to contend with many more deep - seated prejudices than mathematics does . There ...
... concept " ) that , for example , we have a triangle rather than a square in front of us from which a set of ... concepts so customary that it has to contend with many more deep - seated prejudices than mathematics does . There ...
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... concepts of something to its existence , namely , the " cogito , ergo sum " and the inference from the possibility of a necessary being to its actuality . The third section of the prize essay contains Mendelssohn's attempt , as he puts ...
... concepts of something to its existence , namely , the " cogito , ergo sum " and the inference from the possibility of a necessary being to its actuality . The third section of the prize essay contains Mendelssohn's attempt , as he puts ...
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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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