Philosophical Writings

The Philosophical Writings of Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) present the work of the Berlin thinker who led the Jewish Enlightenment, the Haskalah, and was the model for Lessing’s Nathan the Wise. His Phaedon, arguing the immortality of the soul, made him famous across Europe as the German Socrates, and his Jerusalem argued for religious toleration and the separation of church and state. Mendelssohn opened the long engagement of Judaism with modern European thought. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.