Isaac Alexander
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Isaac Alexander was a German
author
. He lived in South Germany in the second half of the 18th century, and wrote on philosophical subjects from a rationalistic
point of view. His works include: Von dem Dasein Gottes, die Selbstredende Vernunft, Ratisbon, 1775; Anmerkungen über die Erste Geschichte der Menschheit nach dem Zeugnisse Mosis, Nuremberg, 1782; Vereinigung der Mosaischen Gesetze mit dem Talmud, Ratisbon, 1786; Einheitsgedichte, a German translation
of the Shir ha-Yiḥud, Ratisbon, 1788; Abhandlung von der Freiheit des Menschen, and Kleine Schriften, Ratisbon, 1789.
Germany
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. He lived in South Germany in the second half of the 18th century, and wrote on philosophical subjects from a rationalistic
Rationalism
In epistemology and in its modern sense, rationalism is "any view appealing to reason as a source of knowledge or justification" . In more technical terms, it is a method or a theory "in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive"...
point of view. His works include: Von dem Dasein Gottes, die Selbstredende Vernunft, Ratisbon, 1775; Anmerkungen über die Erste Geschichte der Menschheit nach dem Zeugnisse Mosis, Nuremberg, 1782; Vereinigung der Mosaischen Gesetze mit dem Talmud, Ratisbon, 1786; Einheitsgedichte, a German translation
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
of the Shir ha-Yiḥud, Ratisbon, 1788; Abhandlung von der Freiheit des Menschen, and Kleine Schriften, Ratisbon, 1789.