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It is necessary to remember that hatred is constantly in human society directed and discharged against persons who could not possibly have been guilty of causing it.…
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Peretz (Friedrich) Bernstein
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
Berlin, Germany
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1926
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In my opinion, one cannot understand the development of the Science of Judaism except by taking note of the profound contradictions or, if you will, the unique dialectical tensions present within it…
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Gershom Scholem
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1944
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The hope for a better society and the despair of solitude, both of which are founded on experiences that claim to be self-evident, seem to be in an insurmountable antagonism. There…
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Emmanuel Levinas
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1947
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At this moment in world history anti-Semitism is not manifesting itself with the full and violent destructiveness of which we know it to be capable. Even a social disease has its periods of quiescence…
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Max Horkheimer, Samuel H. Flowerman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1786
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One of the most amusing features of modern Marx-criticism is the grave discussion by the critics, of the question whether or not Marx…
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Louis Boudin
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New York, United States of America
Chicago, United States
Date:
1906
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We see that the process of growing human freedom has the same dialectic character that we have noticed in the process of individual growth. On the one hand it is a process of growing strength and…
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Erich Fromm
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1941
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[ . . . ] The duality in the attitudes of cognitive man and homo religiosus is rooted in existence itself. Cognitive man concerns himself with a simple and “candid” reality. He does not seek to closet…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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1943
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Following the example of Plato, I have Socrates in his last hours relate the arguments for the immortality of the human soul to his students. The dialogue of the Greek author, which has the name Phaed…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1767
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The telos (takhlit) of man’s activities, in the aspect (behinah) of having will and choice, is the ultimate human good (ha’hatslahah ha’enoshi’it). This excellence necessarily comes after the…
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Solomon Maimon
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792