A so-called “purified Spinozist” with this given name discussed Gotthold Lessing’s pantheism in a work contradicted by Friedrich Jacobi’s contemporaneously published letters. For 10 points each:
[10m] Identify this given name of a philosopher who propounded negative theology in his Guide for the Perplexed.
ANSWER: Moses [accept Moses Maimonides or Moses ben Maimon or Moshe ben Maimon; accept Moses Mendelssohn]
[10e] Moses Maimonides and Moses Mendelssohn practiced this religion. One reason for Baruch Spinoza’s excommunication from this Abrahamic religion was his claim that Moses did not author its central text.
ANSWER: Judaism [or Jewish religion]
[10h] A Platonic dialogue lends its name to a set of three dialogues written to defend this concept by Mendelssohn after the death of Thomas Abbt. Another reason for Spinoza’s excommunication was his rejection of this position, which Maimonides argued for based on intellectual perfection developed through knowledge of God.
ANSWER: immortality of the soul (The Moses Mendelssohn book is entitled Phaedo.)
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