Morning Hours Lectures on God's Existence [Hardcover]

The last work published by Moses Mendelssohn during his lifetime, Morning Hours (1785) is also the most sustained presentation of his mature epistemological and metaphysical views, all elaborated in the service of presenting proofs for the existence of God. But Morning Hours is much more than a theoretical treatise. It also plays a central role in the drama of the Pantheismusstreit, Mendelssohn's dispute with F. H. Jacobi over the nature and scope of Lessing's attitude toward Spinoza and pantheism . As the latest salvo in a war of texts with Jacobi, Morning Hours is also Mendelssohn's attempt to set the record straight regarding his beloved Lessing in this connection, not least by demonstrating the absence of any practical (i.e., religious or moral) difference between theism and a purified pantheism .

The last work published by Moses Mendelssohn during his lifetime, Morning Hours is also the most sustained presentation of his mature epistemological and metaphysical views, all elaborated in the service of presenting proofs for the existence of God.?

First Part.- Preliminary report.- Preliminary Knowledge of Truth, Semblance, and Error.-?I.? What is truth?-?II.? Cause  Effect  Ground  Force.-?III.? Evidence  Of immediate Knowledge.? Rational Knowledge  Knowledge of Nature.- IV.? Truth and Illusion.- V.? Existence  Being Awake  Dreams  Rapture.-?VI.? Combination of Ideas  Idealism.- VII.? Continuation.? The Idealist's Dispute with the Dualist.? Truth-Drive and Approval- Drive. - Second Part.- Scientific Doctrinal Concepts of God's Existence.- VIII.? Importance of the Investigation.? On Basedows Principle of the Duty to Believe.-????? Axiomata.-?IX.? The evidence of the pure and the applied doctrine of magnitudes. Comparison with?the evidence for the proofs of God's existence.? Different methods of those proofs.-?X.? Allegorical Dream.  Reason and Common Sense.- XI.? Epicureanism.  Accident.  Chance.? A Sl“m