Lazarus Bendavid
{{Short description|German mathematician and philosopher}}
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Lazarus Bendavid (18 October 1762, in Berlin – 28 March 1832, in Berlin) was a German mathematician and philosopher known for his exposition of Kantian philosophy.
Biography
Bendavid was a Jewish Kantian philosopher.{{Cite book|title=Jewish philosophical politics in Germany, 1789/1848|last=Sven-Erik.|first=Rose|year=2014|isbn=9781611685787|location=Waltham, Massachusetts|oclc=890067750}} After his graduation from the University of Berlin he lectured for some years on the philosophy of Kant in Vienna. His lectures being discouraged by the Austrian government during a general purge of foreigners, Bendavid returned to Berlin, where he found government employment and continued to lecture and write.
Works
- Uber die Parallellinien (On parallel lines; Berlin, 1786)
- Versuch einer logischen Auseinandersetzung des mathematisch-unendlichen (Treatise on the logical explanation of the mathematical concept of infinity; Berlin 1796)
- Versuch über das Vergnügen (Treatise on pleasure; 2 vols., Vienna 1794)
- Vorlesungen über die Kritik der reinen Vernunft (Lectures on the criticism of pure reason; Vienna, 1795)
- Vorlesungen über die Kritik der praktischen Vernunft (Lectures on the criticism of practical reason; Vienna, 1796)
- Vorlesungen über die Kritik der Urteilskraft (Lectures on the criticism of the power of judgment; Vienna, 1796)
- Rede über den Zweck der Kritischen Philosophie (Talk on the goal of critical philosophy; Vienna, 1796)
- Selbstbiographie (Autobiography; Berlin, 1804)
Notes
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References
- {{Cite NIE|wstitle=Bendavid, Lazarus|year=1905}}
- {{Cite Americana|wstitle=Bendavid, Lazarus|year=1920}}
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