JS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Romantic Nationalism, Jewish Assimilation, Moses Mendelssohn

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JS-3100
• Professor: Smith Helmut

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Lessing"s nathan the wise, 1779 a. b. c. d. They believe its worth (like religion) can only be brought out by love. Religions would be looked upon as something which brought out the goodness of mankind, rather than just "this is mine" i. ii. Something that would conform to our compassionate reasoning. Took away century"s law of difference between the 3 religions e. As there was a law for nature or things in nature (animals, plants), so there must be in human world as well bc we are animals of a sort. But we are animals with the ability to reason i. ii. Allows humanity to discern what those basic laws were. Animals follow by instinct, humans can figure out what they were and organize society to conform to those principles d. It pertained to christians as well as jews e. John locke argued forcefully that civil rights ought to be extended to everyone i. ii. iii.