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Moses Mendelssohn
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R952
Discovery Miles 9 520
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Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86) is considered the father of the Jewish
Enlightenment and the last great Leibnizian in the German
philosophical tradition. One of his most successful works was this
dialogue on the immortality of the soul, modelled on Plato's
"Phaedo". Mendelssohn sought to recast Plato's proofs of the soul's
immortality by adding "such arguments as are supplied by modern
philosophy". Like its ancient ancestor, Mendelssohn's dialogue
includes an account of the death of Socrates - an important figure
in 18th-century Europe. ""Ph don": or, "The Death of Socrates"",
originally published in German in 1767 and translated by Charles
Cullen in 1789, has never been rendered into modern English.
Cullen's translation is thus the only recourse for present-day
scholars who cannot read German. It is long out of print and
difficult to find, even in the largest academic libraries. Now that
the Englishspeaking philosophical world is delving ever more deeply
into the history of German philosophy, this facsimile of the 1789
edition - newly introduced by Curtis Bowman - should be widely
welcomed.
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.
Diese Hardcover-Ausgabe ist Teil der TREDITION CLASSICS. Der Verlag
tredition aus Hamburg veroffentlicht in der Buchreihe TREDITION
CLASSICS Werke aus mehr als zwei Jahrtausenden. Diese waren zu
einem Grossteil vergriffen oder nur noch antiquarisch erhaltlich.
Mit TREDITION CLASSICS verfolgt tredition das Ziel, tausende
Klassiker der Weltliteratur verschiedener Sprachen wieder als
gedruckte Bucher zu verlegen - und das weltweit Die Buchreihe dient
zur Bewahrung der Literatur und Forderung der Kultur. Sie tragt so
dazu bei, dass viele tausend Werke nicht in Vergessenheit geraten
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