Introduction: the Enlightenment in Bohemia1
... enterprise in the eighteenth century that tried to uphold morality by seeking a philosophical basis for morality after Revelation lost its motivational force. In spite of the difference between the radical and the religious (or mainstream) Enlightenments, morality was a common target at which both of ...
... enterprise in the eighteenth century that tried to uphold morality by seeking a philosophical basis for morality after Revelation lost its motivational force. In spite of the difference between the radical and the religious (or mainstream) Enlightenments, morality was a common target at which both of ...
syllabus - UT College of Liberal Arts
... metaphysical and moral and psychological principles. In his unfinished Political Treatise. Spinoza further develops or elaborates political implications—but he died before writing the crucial section on democracy. The course will be devoted to study of these works, and especially the Theologico-Poli ...
... metaphysical and moral and psychological principles. In his unfinished Political Treatise. Spinoza further develops or elaborates political implications—but he died before writing the crucial section on democracy. The course will be devoted to study of these works, and especially the Theologico-Poli ...
The Enlightenment in Bohemia
... The milestone in the university life of the Habsburg Monarchy was the year 1752, when the major reforms of philosophical and theological studies were implemented at the University of Vienna. The Jesuit monopoly was taken over by the state control of the university curriculum, which prescribed the sh ...
... The milestone in the university life of the Habsburg Monarchy was the year 1752, when the major reforms of philosophical and theological studies were implemented at the University of Vienna. The Jesuit monopoly was taken over by the state control of the university curriculum, which prescribed the sh ...
The Rationalism of Jewish Law in Moses Mendelssohn
... from idolatry, but he does so while drawing on contemporary ideas from the social sciences. As Edward Breuer notes, in expressing the “unique qualities of Jewish revelation,” Mendelssohn shows his familiarity with the leading sociological, psychological, epistemological, and linguistic ideas of the ...
... from idolatry, but he does so while drawing on contemporary ideas from the social sciences. As Edward Breuer notes, in expressing the “unique qualities of Jewish revelation,” Mendelssohn shows his familiarity with the leading sociological, psychological, epistemological, and linguistic ideas of the ...
Modern Judaism and Religious Tolerance
... William permitted fifty wealthy Jewish families expelled from Austria to settle in Berlin. In September 1671, some of the Jewish families were issued Schutzbriefe (certificates of protection). However, Jews were forced to live a harsh life in Berlin, while Huguenots who were granted settlement permi ...
... William permitted fifty wealthy Jewish families expelled from Austria to settle in Berlin. In September 1671, some of the Jewish families were issued Schutzbriefe (certificates of protection). However, Jews were forced to live a harsh life in Berlin, while Huguenots who were granted settlement permi ...
The Impact of Deism on the Hebrew Literature of the Enlightenment
... From the contention that Christianity has no exclusive rights over true religion, deists moved on to demand religious tolerance;8 they looked for 5 An Essay on Man II, 1-2: "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan! The proper study of mankind is man." Cf. the London, 1736, edition for the origina ...
... From the contention that Christianity has no exclusive rights over true religion, deists moved on to demand religious tolerance;8 they looked for 5 An Essay on Man II, 1-2: "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan! The proper study of mankind is man." Cf. the London, 1736, edition for the origina ...
The Emergence of Jewish Thought in the Enlightenment
... The development of the Jewish Enlightenment took place in Germany during the eighteenth century under the leadership of Moses Mendelssohn. Born in Dessau, Mendelssohn settled in Berlin where he engaged in secular as well as Jewish studies. Influenced by Gotthold Lessing, Mendelssohn published a numb ...
... The development of the Jewish Enlightenment took place in Germany during the eighteenth century under the leadership of Moses Mendelssohn. Born in Dessau, Mendelssohn settled in Berlin where he engaged in secular as well as Jewish studies. Influenced by Gotthold Lessing, Mendelssohn published a numb ...
Jerusalem (Mendelssohn)
Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (German: Jerusalem oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum) is a book written by Moses Mendelssohn, which was first published in 1783 – the same year, when the Prussian officer Christian Wilhelm von Dohm published the second part of his Mémoire Concerning the amelioration of the civil status of the Jews. Moses Mendelssohn was one of the key figures of Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) and his philosophical treatise, dealing with social contract and political theory (especially concerning the question of the separation between religion and state), can be regarded as his most important contribution to Haskalah. The book which was written in Prussia on the eve of the French Revolution, consisted of two parts and each one was paged separately. The first part discusses ""religious power"" and the freedom of conscience in the context of the political theory (Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, Thomas Hobbes), and the second part discusses Mendelssohn's personal conception of Judaism concerning the new secular role of any religion within an enlightened state. In his publication Moses Mendelssohn combined a defense of the Jewish population against public accusations with contemporary criticism of the present conditions of the Prussian Monarchy.