: Moses Mendelssohn
: Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Corey Dyck
: Morning Hours Lectures on God's Existence
: Springer-Verlag
: 9789400704183
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The last work published by Moses Mendelssohn during his lifetime, Morning Hours (1785) is also the most sustained presentation of his mature epistemological and metaphysical views, all elaborated in the service of presenting proofs for the existence of God. But Morning Hours is much more than a theoretical treatise. It also plays a central role in the drama of the Pantheismusstreit, Mendelssohn's 'dispute' with F. H. Jacobi over the nature and scope of Lessing's attitude toward Spinoza and 'pantheism'. As the latest salvo in a war of texts with Jacobi, Morning Hours is also Mendelssohn's attempt to set the record straight regarding his beloved Lessing in this connection, not least by demonstrating the absence of any practical (i.e., religious or moral) difference between theism and a 'purified pantheism'.
Introduction7
Part I: Preliminary Knowledge of Truth, Semblance, and Error10
Part II: Scientific Doctrinal Concepts of God’s Existence12
Notes on the Translation15
Contents17
Preliminary Report19
Part IPreliminary Knowledge of Truth,Semblance, and Error21
Chapter 1: What is truth?22
Chapter 2: Cause – Effect – Ground – Power.27
Chapter 3: Evidence – Of immediate Knowledge: Rational Knowledge – Knowledge of Nature.34
Chapter 4: Truth and Illusion.39
Chapter 5: Existence – Being Awake – Dreams – Rapture.45
Chapter 6: Combination of Ideas – Idealism.50
Chapter 7: Continuation. The Idealist’s Dispute with the Dualist. Truth-Drive and Approval-Drive.56
Part IIScientific Doctrinal Conceptsof God’s Existence62
Chapter 8: Importance of the Investigation. On Basedow’s Principle of the Duty to Believe. Axiomata.63
Chapter 9: The evidence of the pure and the applied doctrine of magnitudes. Comparison with the evidence for the proofs of God's existence. Different methods of those proofs.63
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Chapter 10: Allegorical Dream. – Reason and Common63
Chapter 10: Allegorical Dream. – Reason and Common63
Chapter 10: Allegorical Dream. – Reason and Common63
Chapter 10: Allegorical Dream. – Reason and Common63
Chapter 10: Allegorical Dream. – Reason and Common63
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Chapter 11: Epicureanism. – Accident. – Chance. A Series of Causes and Effects, without End, – without Beginning. Progression into Infinity, Forwards and Backwards. – The Timeless, without Beginning, without End and without Progression.63
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Chapter 12: Sufficient Reason for the Contingent in the Necessary. – The former is somewhere and sometimes, the latter is everywhere and all times. – The former is only in relation to space and time the latter is unqualifiedly the best and most perfect. Ev
Chapter 13: Spinozism. – Pantheism. – All is One and One is All. – Refutation.87
Chapter 14: Continued dispute with the pantheists. – Approximation. – Point of unison with them. – Innocuousness of the purif patheism. – Compatibility with religion and ethics insofar as they are practical.87
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Chapter 15: Lessing. – His Contribution to the Religion of Reason. – His Thoughts on Purified Pantheism.102
Chapter 16: Elucidation of the concepts of necessity, contingency, independence, and dependence. – Attempt at a new proof for the existence of God on the basis of the incompleteness of self-knowledge.102
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Chapter 17: The a priori Grounds of Proof of the Existence of a supremely perfect, necessary, independent Being.118
Remarks and Additions125
Glossary137
Index137
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