Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn
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Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn is a philosophical work by Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, written in epistolary form, that sparked the famous Pantheism Controversy by critically examining Spinoza’s philosophy and its implications for reason, faith, and Enlightenment thought.
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| Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn canonical | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
epistolary work
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| addressesTo | Moses Mendelssohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aimsTo |
defend the necessity of faith beyond reason
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show consequences of strict rationalism ⓘ |
| author | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
Glaube (faith)
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Vernunft (reason) ⓘ fatalism ⓘ pantheism ⓘ revelation ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| criticizes |
Baruch Spinoza
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Enlightenment rationalism ⓘ Spinoza’s rationalism ⓘ |
| discusses |
concept of God in Spinoza
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limits of Enlightenment thought ⓘ possibility of metaphysics ⓘ relationship between reason and faith ⓘ |
| form | letters ⓘ |
| genre |
philosophy
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religious philosophy ⓘ |
| historicalContext | Pantheism Controversy of the 1780s NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalImpact |
contributed to crisis of Enlightenment rationalism in late 18th century
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influenced reception of Spinoza in Germany ⓘ shaped later debates on German idealism ⓘ |
| influenced | Pantheism Controversy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| literaryForm | epistolary ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Baruch Spinoza
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Spinozism NERFINISHED ⓘ pantheism ⓘ reason and faith ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
German Enlightenment
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early German idealism (contextual precursor) ⓘ |
| positionOnSpinoza |
interprets Spinoza as a pantheist
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interprets Spinoza’s system as fatalistic ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1785 ⓘ |
| relatedThinker |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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Immanuel Kant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWork | David Hume über den Glauben, oder Idealismus und Realismus (Jacobi) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triggered | Pantheism Controversy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
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Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn
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