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The Modern World (1800 AD-Onwards) (Philosophers: Gotthold Lessing)
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(5) Philosophers (1729- )
1) Gotthold Lessing
① Gotthold Lessing who was playwright historian and critic, was one of the most prominent figures of the German Enlightenment.
② He was born in Kamenz in 1729, and he studied and medicine. he however was more interested in literature.
③ As a historian, he realized that many theological issues are really historical ones. In particular, he saw that the Bible can be approached as a historial source like any other works.
④ He wrote a series of extracts of the work of Hermann Reimarus, who had argued that Jesus had believed the end of the world imminent; after his death his disciples claimed that he would return soon; but when this failed to happen they changed the message. And Christianity was thus based on a mistake and a deception.
⑤ He wrote "there is broad, ugly ditch of history that I cannot jump across." He believed there is a ditch between the ages of history.
⑥ He believed that the truth of religion are eternal and necessary and can, in theory, be discovered by the exercise of enlightened reason.
⑦ He concluded, "The accidental truths of history can never become the proof of the necessary truths of reason."
⑧ He believed that the historical religion, Christianity, Judaism and so on, play an important but limited role in the development of humanity. He however emphasized the ethical values.
⑨ He believed that different religions are therefore of equal value, since they are all historically limited and will one day become obsolete.
⑩ He argued forcibly for religious tolerance. In a sense, his argument, as a result, is the same what pluralists have insisted.
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