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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... nature insures that mixed sentiments are not special instances , but in fact the rule , to which there is no exception . This consideration provides Mendelssohn with yet another opportunity to challenge Maupertuis and , in the process ...
... nature insures that mixed sentiments are not special instances , but in fact the rule , to which there is no exception . This consideration provides Mendelssohn with yet another opportunity to challenge Maupertuis and , in the process ...
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... nature . Mendelssohn agrees with the attempt to locate a single principle but he rejects the notion that it is to be found in the difference between art and nature . Instead , after noting that nature is quite pleasing when it is not ...
... nature . Mendelssohn agrees with the attempt to locate a single principle but he rejects the notion that it is to be found in the difference between art and nature . Instead , after noting that nature is quite pleasing when it is not ...
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... nature . When , for example , the paradigm in nature is not beautiful , we delight in the imitation both for the artistry and for the realization that it is only an imitation . Indeed , in an obvious concession to Batteux and the ...
... nature . When , for example , the paradigm in nature is not beautiful , we delight in the imitation both for the artistry and for the realization that it is only an imitation . Indeed , in an obvious concession to Batteux and the ...
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... nature . The ancients have already performed the necessary abstrac- tion and idealization . Mendelssohn does not pretend to have worked out an entire system of the arts . But the second half of " On the main principles " does contain a ...
... nature . The ancients have already performed the necessary abstrac- tion and idealization . Mendelssohn does not pretend to have worked out an entire system of the arts . But the second half of " On the main principles " does contain a ...
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... nature and integrity had been , as noted earlier , a matter of such public dispute within the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1761 the Classe de philosophie spéculative of the Royal Academy announced an essay contest for the ...
... nature and integrity had been , as noted earlier , a matter of such public dispute within the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences . In 1761 the Classe de philosophie spéculative of the Royal Academy announced an essay contest for the ...
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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