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Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings

By Moses Mendelssohn; Daniel O. Dahlstrom (ed.)

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1997
ISBN
0521574773, 9780521574778
Language
english
Format
ZIP
Filesize
16 MB (17227624 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Pages
364\0
Time added
2017-11-12 20:35:03
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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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