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Philosophical and theological writings / translated and edited by H.B. Nisbet

Author
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781
Uniform Title
Works. Selections. English. 2005
Additional Titles
Lessing: Philosophical & Theological Writings
Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 262, 2 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Additional Creators
Nisbet, H. B. (Hugh Barr)
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Contents
The Christianity of reason -- On the reality of things outside God -- Spinoza only put Leibniz on the track of [his theory of] pre-established harmony -- On the origin of revealed religion -- Leibniz on eternal punishment -- [Editorial commentary on the 'Fragments' of Reimarus] -- On the proof of the spirit and of power -- The testament of St. John -- A rejoinder -- A parable -- Axioms -- New hypothesis on the evangelists as merely human historians -- Necessary answer to a very unnecessary question of Herr Hauptpastor Goeze of Hamburg -- The religion of Christ -- That more than five senses are possible for human beings -- Ernst and Falk : dialogues for Freemasons -- The education of the human race -- Recollections of conversations with Lessing in July and August 1780 / Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.
Summary
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on Christianity led to fundamental changes in Protestant theology. This volume presents the most comprehensive collection to date in English of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings, several of which are here translated for the first time. They are edited and translated by H. B. Nisbet, who also provides an introduction that sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.
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ISBN
9780511810138 (ebook)
9780521831208 (hardback)
9780521538473 (paperback)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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