Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohnwas a German Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth6 September 1729
CountryGermany
Moses Mendelssohn quotes about
legislation one-thing
Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.
revelations salvation judaism
Judaism boasts of no exclusive revelation of eternal truths that are indispensable to salvation, of no revealed religion in the sense in which that term is usually understood.
sight glasses understanding
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight