Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohnwas a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth6 September 1729
CountryGermany
actions based both former german-philosopher insofar latter man nature object relations state
Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as they are based on the relations between man and nature, the latter insofar as they are based on the relations between nature and God.
appears beauty considered demanding far german-philosopher particular pleases possess
Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it.
games chess too-much
For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.
sight glasses understanding
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight
philosophical school disputes
You know how much I am inclined to explain all disputes among philosophical schools as merely verbal disputes or at least to derive them originally from verbal disputes
thinkable
A God is thinkable, therefore a God is also actually present
I am, therefore there is a God.
art desire movement
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it
mean doubt resolve
My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
fall ignorance thinking
Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence
revelations salvation judaism
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
thinking play care
Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed.
legislation one-thing
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
church mosques may
Reader! To whatever visible church, synagogue, or mosque you may belong! See if you do not find more true religion among the host of the excommunicated than among the far greater host who excommunicated them.