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- As might be expected, Kant's answer and Mendelssohn's were not in agreement. Consistently with his eudaimonism, Mendelssohn had located enlightenment in the cultivation of what Kant would call the theoretical, as distinguished from the practical, use of one's intellectual powers.
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Jul 11, 2015 · sohn's.6 Venturi's brief against Kant is partly valid: Kant's discussion of enlightenment may indeed have led subsequent commentators away from questions of power and politics. But perhaps this is only because those who have invoked Kant's definition have rarely explored the debate which his essay joined.
Consistently with his eudaimonism, Mendelssohn had located enlightenment in the cultivation of what Kant would call the theoretical, as distinguished from the practical, use of one's intellectual powers. To this extent, Kant's reply to Garve in “Theory and Practice” would serve against Mendelssohn as well.
Mar 18, 2014 · Moses Mendelssohn, “On Enlightening the Mind”. The text that follows is the first English translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s 1784 response to the question “What is enlightenment?”. The anonymous translation appeared in 1800 in the second volume of The German Museum, a short-lived journal edited by the London-based German emigres ...
Dec 3, 2002 · Moses Mendelssohn (b. 1729, d. 1786) was a creative and eclectic thinker whose writings on metaphysics and aesthetics, political theory and theology, together with his Jewish heritage, placed him at the focal point of the German Enlightenment for over three decades.
Sep 3, 2021 · By reconstructing the debate between Mendelssohn and Kant, Jakob, and Schütz on the existence of God, the significance of this dispute for the Enlightenment in Germany in the mid-1780s can be demonstrated.
whether the 'enlightenment' of individual human beings could conflict with the welfare of the community as a whole. In his Was ist Aufkldrungl, Kant unwittingly concurred with Mendelssohn that this conflict could indeed happen. A judge or clergyman might have to prop up popular prejudice from time to time in order protect civil order. But Kant ...
Kant’s conception of Enlightenment, unlike Mendelssohn’s, does not stand in opposition to a practical sphere insofar as Enlightenment designates the process of breaking away from immaturity (Unmündigkeit), a process the scope of which is necessarily unlimited. Keywords: Kant, Mendelssohn, Enlightenment, reason, history, progress
