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Allison, Henry E.,. Lessing and the Enlightenment: his philosophy of religion and its relation to eighteenth-century thought / Henry E. Allison. — 1 online resource. — <URL:http://elib.fa.ru/ebsco/1699362.pdf>.

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Subject: Intellectual life — History; Enlightenment.; Enlightenment.; Intellectual life.; Religion.; DRAMA / Continental European

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Table of Contents

  • Contents
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Chapter 1. The Historical Background
    • I. English Rational Theology and Deism
      • Locke
      • Deism
    • II. Pierre Bayle and the Enlightenment
      • Superstition
      • Toleration
      • Skepticism
    • III. Leibniz and the German Aufklärung
      • Leibniz
      • Wolff
      • Neology
      • Reimarus
  • Chapter 2. Lessing's Philosophical and Theological Development
    • I. The First Period—1748–55
      • The ethical orientation
      • The Rationalistic Orientation
      • Philosophical Speculations
    • II. The Second Period—1755–60
      • Lessing and Mendelssohn
      • Literary criticism
    • III. The Breslau Years—1760–65
      • Lessing and Spinoza—metaphysics
      • Lessing and Spinoza—religion
  • Chapter 3. Lessing versus the Theologians
    • I. Lessing versus Neology
    • II. Lessing and Reimarus
    • III. Reactions to the Fragments
    • IV. Goeze's Attack
    • V. Lessing's Counterattack
  • Chapter 4. Lessing's Philosophy of Religion and Its Leibnizian Roots
    • I. The Problem
    • II. The Solution
      • Lessing and the Leibnizian perspectivalism
    • III. The Exemplification
      • Ernst and Falk: Conversations for Freemasons
      • Nathan the Wise
      • The Education of the Human Race
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A. Lessing's Conception of Revelation as Education
    • I
    • II
    • III
    • IV
    • V
    • Notes
  • Appendix B. Lessing's Spinozistic Exercises
    • I
    • II
    • III
    • IV
    • Notes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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