6. Name the most famous German philosopher of the Enlightenment and the name...

**nig** · 06-03-2010, 10:37 AM

...of his most famous treatise..? Name the most famous German philosopher of the Enlightenment and the name of his most famous treatise on the Enlightenment.

**The Man in the Arena** · 06-03-2010, 10:37 AM

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). Established critical philosophy on a systematic basis, proposed a material theory for the origin of the solar system, wrote on ethics and morals. Prescribed a politics of Enlightenment in What is Enlightenment? (1784).

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) Dramatist, critic, political philosopher. Created theatre in the German language, began reappraisal of Shakespeare to being a central figure, and the importance of classical dramatic norms as being crucial to good dramatic writing, theorized that the centre of political and cultural life is the middle class.

Thomas Abbt (1738–1766) Vom Tode für's Vaterland (On dying for one's nation).

Justus Henning Boehmer (1674–1749), German ecclesiastical jurist, one of the first reformer of the church law and the civil law which was basis for further reforms and maintained until the 20th century.

Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744–1803). Theologian and linguist. Proposed that language determines thought, introduced concepts of ethnic study and nationalism, influential on later Romantic thinkers. Early supporter of democracy and republican self rule.