Moses Mendelssohn

German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) is best known in the English-speaking world for his Jerusalem (1783), the first attempt to present Judaism as a religion compatible with the ideas of the Enlightenment. While incorporating much of Jerusalem, Michah Gottlieb's volume seeks to expand knowledge of Mendelssohn's thought by presenting translations of many of his other seminal writings from the German or Hebrew originals. These writings include essays, commentaries, unpublished reflections, and personal letters. Part One includes selections from the three major controversies of Mendelssohn's life, all of which involved polemical encounters with Christian thinkers. Part Two presents selections from Mendelssohn's writings on the Bible. Part Three offers texts that illuminate Mendelssohn's thoughts on a diverse range of religious topics, including God's existence, the immortality of the soul, and miracles. Designed for class adoption, the volume contains annotations and an introduction by the editor.

Foreword
Introduction: Moses Mendelssohn and the Project of Modern Jewish Philosophy
Polemical Writings
The Lavater Affair and Related Documents (1769-1773)
Lavater's Dedication
Open Letter to Lavater
From "Counter-Reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis"
Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773
Letter to "a Man of Rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar)
Jerusalem and Related Documents (1782-1783)
From the Preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum
"The Search for Light and Right"
Moerschel's Postscript
From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism
From Letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg
The Pantheism Controversy (1785-1786)
From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza
From Morning Hours
From To Lessing's Friends
Writings on the Bible
From Introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes
Introduction to Translation of Psalms
From Letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779
From Light for the Path
Selections from the Bi'ur
On Peshat and Derash
Lex Talionis
On Adam's Sin
On Biblical Poetry
The Eternal
On Commanding Belief in God, Jewish Election, and Idolatry
On Divine Jealousy
On Kingship
Miscellany
On the Religious Legitimacy of Studying Logic
An Ontological Proof for God's Existence
A Cosmological Proof for God's Existence
A Proof for the Immortality of the Soul
A Rational Foundation for Ethics
On the Possibility of Miracles
On the Reliability of Miracles
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index
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