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  • Between Action and Reflection : Moses Mendelssohn as an Enlightenment Philosopher and Traditional Jew Kaplan, Lawrence J. 2022 Dialogue and Universalism , Vol. 32 , Issue 1 , S. 65 ff. ( Zeitschrift ) Englisch 1234-5792 | 1689-3816 10.5840/du20223215 Abstract

    Among the many criticisms advanced against the enlightenment is that its emphasis on rational reflection and commitment to universal moral truths serve as solvents of tradition and community. Here, I wish to show how the German Jewish enlightenment figure, Moses Mendelssohn in his classic work, Jerusalem succeeded in bringing together universal rational religious reflection and Halakhah, Jewish ceremonial law. Essentially, the ceremonial law for Mendelssohn, forms a traditional mimetic society, whose members absorb the Halakhah naturally and intuitively both from the community at large and from its teachers through a process of total immersion. If we see religious practice as a language, then members of this halakhic mimetic community, for whom the Halakhah is a first language practiced fluently and intuitively, are able to use this language to intelligently discuss the great truths of religion. In this way, tradition and community and rational reflection turn out to be mutually supportive.

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    Continental Philosophy | Language and Literature | Social and Political Philosophy | Social Science

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