The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment

ISBN-13: 9781009241151 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Martin Mulsow; H. C. Erik Midelfort

Opis

The early German Enlightenment is seen as a reform movement that broke free from traditional ties without falling into anti-Christian and extremist positions. But how did the works which were radical and critical of religion during this period come about? And how do they relate to the dominant 'moderate' Enlightenment?

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The mortal soul: biblicism, materialism and the new science; 2. Nature and idolatry. The ambivalence of the natural from Henry Stubbe to Christian Gabriel Fischer; 3. The doctrine of the temperaments: medicine and the problem of atheism; 4. Natural law, religion and moral scepticism; 5. From Becmann to Stosch: the Socinian contexts of the concordia rationis et fidei [the harmony of reason and faith] (1692); 6. The founders of religion as human beings: Moses and Jesus between inflation and deflation; Conclusion.