Lessing's philosophy of religion and the German enlightenment [Texte imprimé] : Lessing on Christianity and reason / Toshimasa Yasukata

Bibliogr. p. 187-200

Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION 3 -- Lessing's Significance for German Intellectual History 3 -- Lessing and Modern Protestant Theology 5 -- Tasks of Lessing Studies 7 -- The Question of Methodology for Lessing Studies 11 -- 1 LESSING AND CHRISTIANITY 14 -- Lessing's Formative Period (Bildungsjahre) 14 -- Lessing and the Fragments Controversy (Fragmentenstreit) 18 -- Lessing's Theological Position 20 -- Lessing and the Pursuit of Truth 22 -- Salient Features of Lessing's Theological Thought 25 -- 2 THE RELIGIOUS THOUGHT OF THE YOUNG LESSING 29 -- The Young Lessing and His Religious Skepticism 29 -- The Young Lessing and His Theological Critique 31 -- The Ideal of Universal Humanity as Expressed in the Comedy -- The Jews 34 -- Lessing's Speculative Reflections in The Christianity of Reason 36 -- 3 THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN LESSING AND GOEZE 41 -- Beginning and Development of the Controversy 42 -- Goeze's Attack 44 -- Lessing's Defense 47 -- Lessing's Anti-Goeze 51 -- 4 LESSING'S "UGLY BROAD DITCH" 56 -- The Proof of the Spirit and of Power 57 -- Truths of History and Truths of Reason 60 -- The "Inner Truth" of Religion 62 -- Genuine Christian Love 64 -- The Authenticity of Lessing's "Ugly Ditch" 67 -- Lessing's Problem and Peter's Problem 69 -- 5 NATHAN THE WISE AND LESSING'S "IDEAL OF HUMANITY" 72 -- The Background and Main Theme of Nathan the Wise 73 -- The Parable of the Three Rings 75 -- The Truth Claim of a Historical Religion in the Interim 79 -- Nathan and the Education of Humanity 82 -- The Essence of Nathan's Reason 85 -- 6 LESSING'S BASIC THOUGHT IN The Education of the Human Race 89 -- Basic Features of The Education of the Human Race 90 -- Basic Structure of The Education of the Human Race 92 -- Lessing's Historical Position 93 -- Revelation as the Education of the Human Race 96 -- Revelation and Reason: (1) The Old Testament Age 99 -- Revelation and Reason: (2) The New Testament Age 103 -- A "New Eternal Gospel" and the Completion of the Human Race 107 -- The Idea of Reincarnation 110 -- A Dialectical View of Revelation and Reason 112 -- 7 LESSING'S "SPINOZISM" 117 -- The Beginning of the Pantheismusstreit 118 -- The Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi 120 -- Jacobi and Spinozism 124 -- Mendelssohn and "Refined Pantheism" 127 -- Lessing's Hen kai Pan 130 -- Lessing's Panentheism 134 -- Lessing's View of God and the World 136