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Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic

Critical Assessments

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Editors:
  1. Gideon Freudenthal

    1. The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Jerusalem, Israel

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Part of the book series: Studies in German Idealism (SIGI, volume 2)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introductory Essay

    1. A Philosopher between Two Cultures

      • Gideon Freudenthal
      Pages 1-17

  4. Empirical Skepticism

    1. Maimon’s Subversion of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: There are no Synthetic a priori Judgments in Physics

      • Gideon Freudenthal
      Pages 144-175

    2. Maimon’s “Quid Facti” Argument

      • Yaron Senderowicz
      Pages 176-199

    3. What Should Kantians Learn from Maimon’s Skepticism?

      • Paul Franks
      Pages 200-232

    4. Maimon and Fichte

      • Frederick Beiser
      Pages 233-248

  5. Unknown Work of Salomon Maimon

    1. Salomon Maimon als Rezensent, nebst einer bisher unbeachteten Rezension

      • Florian Ehrensperger
      Pages 249-262

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 263-304
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About this book

Salomon Maimon (1753-1800), one of the most fascinating characters of eighteenth-century intellectual history, came from a traditional orthodox Jewish community in Eastern Europe to Berlin to seek Enlightenment. Maimon remained an outsider: an 'Ostjude' among the enlightened Jews in Berlin, a freethinker among observant Jews and a Jew among the non-Jews. His autobiography became a classic of autobiographical literature of the Enlightenment. His 'inter-cultural' experience is reflected in his philosophy. Indebted to the Maimonidean as well as to the modern European (notably Kantian) philosophical tradition, he attempted a synthesis of normally exclusive orientations: 'Rational Dogmatism' and 'Empirical Skepticism'. Maimon's importance in the development from Kant to German Idealism has been acknowledged, but the interpretation of his own philosophical position suffered much from this narrow perspective.
The essays of leading scholars collected in this volume focus on his synthesis of 'Rational Dogmatism' and 'Empirical Skepticism'.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University, Jerusalem, Israel

    Gideon Freudenthal

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Skeptic

  • Book Subtitle: Critical Assessments

  • Editors: Gideon Freudenthal

  • Series Title: Studies in German Idealism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-2936-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-1473-4Published: 30 September 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6363-2Published: 06 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-2936-9Published: 17 April 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1571-4764

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-9868

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 304

  • Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Metaphysics, Epistemology, Modern Philosophy

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