Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, brings the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of 'sentiments' (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses), and helped propel its author to the forefront of the Berlin Enlightenment.
Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, published in 1761, brings the metaphysical tradition to bear on the topic of 'sentiments' (defined as knowledge or awareness by way of the senses), and helped propel its author to the forefront of the Berlin Enlightenment.
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.