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1 year ago  ::  Mar 28, 2012 - 5:23AM #1
CharikIeia
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I was wondering whether the participants here in this forum were aware of the play "Nathan the Wise" by 18th century, enlightenment-era German writer & philosopher G.E. Lessing.


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_the_Wise


In modern Germany, pretty much everyone with a higher education knows it, if not by heart, certainly by its humanist message of religious tolerance. Maybe something to add to the vacation reading list, or so.

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1 year ago  ::  Mar 29, 2012 - 8:49PM #2
Bunsinspace
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Mar 28, 2012 -- 5:23AM, CharikIeia wrote:


I was wondering whether the participants here in this forum were aware of the play "Nathan the Wise" by 18th century, enlightenment-era German writer & philosopher G.E. Lessing.


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BS"D


Yep.  Studied it in my college dayz (which was a few decades ago.)  All good IMHO and quite a refreshing change from the majority of antisemitic publications circulating at the time.
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