Lessing: Philosophical and Theological Writings

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing; H. B. Nisbet

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Edited and translated by H. B. Nisbet, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2012
Print publication year:: 2005
Online ISBN:: 9780511810138
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511810138

Subjects:: Religion, Philosophy Texts, Philosophy, Theology
Series:: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–81), thinker, dramatist and controversialist of many-sided interests, is the most representative figure of the German Enlightenment. His defence of Spinoza, who had traditionally been condemned as an atheist, provoked a major controversy in philosophy, and his publication of H. S. Reimarus' radical assault on Christianity led to fundamental changes in Protestant theology. This volume presents the most comprehensive collection to date in English of Lessing's philosophical and theological writings, several of which are here translated for the first time. They are edited and translated by H. B. Nisbet, who also provides an introduction that sets them in their historical and philosophical contexts.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-vii

Chronology
pp viii-x

Further reading
pp xi-xii

Note on texts and translations
pp xiii-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-22

Philosophical and theological writings
pp 23-24

1 - The Christianity of reason (c. 1753)
pp 25-29

2 - On the reality of things outside God (1763)
pp 30-31

3 - Spinoza only put Leibniz on the track of [his theory of] pre-established harmony (1763)
pp 32-34

4 - On the origin of revealed religion (1763 or 1764)
pp 35-36

5 - Leibniz on eternal punishment (1773)
pp 37-60

6 - [Editorial commentary on the ‘Fragments’ of Reimarus, 1777]
pp 61-82

7 - On the proof of the spirit and of power (1777)
pp 83-88

8 - The Testament of St John (1777)
pp 89-94

9 - A rejoinder (1778)
pp 95-109

10 - A parable (1778)
pp 110-119

11 - Axioms (1778)
pp 120-147

12 - New hypothesis on the evangelists as merely human historians (1778)
pp 148-171

13 - Necessary answer to a very unnecessary question of Herr Hauptpastor Goeze of Hamburg (1778)
pp 172-177

14 - The religion of Christ (1780)
pp 178-179

15 - That more than five senses are possible for human beings (c. 1780)
pp 180-183

16 - Ernst and Falk: dialogues for Freemasons (1778–80)
pp 184-216

17 - The education of the human race (1777–80)
pp 217-240

18 - [Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, Recollections of conversations with Lessing in July and August 1780 (1785)]
pp 241-256

Index
pp 257-262

Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy
pp 263-264

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