Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings
Moses Mendelssohn, Daniel O. Dahlstrom (ed.)
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.
Година:
1997
Издателство:
Cambridge University Press
Език:
english
Страници:
364
ISBN 10:
0521574773
ISBN 13:
9780521574778
Серия:
Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Файл:
ZIP, 16.43 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1997