Lessing and the Enlightenment: His Philosophy of Religion and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century Thought
A comprehensive study of Lessing's religious thought.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
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Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 1729-1781
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Print version: Allison, Henry E: Lessing and the Enlightenment : His Philosophy of Religion and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century Thought. - Albany : State University of New York Press,c2018. - 9781438468037 |
| Summary: | A comprehensive study of Lessing's religious thought. Intro -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Chapter 1. The Historical Background -- I. English Rational Theology and Deism -- Locke -- Deism -- II. Pierre Bayle and the Enlightenment -- Superstition -- Toleration -- Skepticism -- III. Leibniz and the German Aufklärung -- Leibniz -- Wolff -- Neology -- Reimarus -- Chapter 2. Lessing's Philosophical and Theological Development -- I. The First Period-1748-55 -- The ethical orientation -- The Rationalistic Orientation -- Philosophical Speculations -- II. The Second Period-1755-60 -- Lessing and Mendelssohn -- Literary criticism -- III. The Breslau Years-1760-65 -- Lessing and Spinoza-metaphysics -- Lessing and Spinoza-religion -- Chapter 3. Lessing versus the Theologians -- I. Lessing versus Neology -- II. Lessing and Reimarus -- III. Reactions to the Fragments -- IV. Goeze's Attack -- V. Lessing's Counterattack -- Chapter 4. Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and Its Leibnizian Roots -- I. The Problem -- II. The Solution -- Lessing and the Leibnizian perspectivalism -- III. The Exemplification -- Ernst and Falk: Conversations for Freemasons -- Nathan the Wise -- The Education of the Human Race -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. Lessing's Conception of Revelation as Education -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- Notes -- Appendix B. Lessing's Spinozistic Exercises -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1438468040 |