salomon maimon

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Salomon Maimon (c1754-1800), German philosopher

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orig. Salomon ben Joshua born 1754, Nieswiez, grand duchy of Lithuania died Nov. 22, 1800, Nieder-Siegersdorf, Silesia Polish Jewish philosopher. As a young man, he pursued Hebrew and rabbinic studies, adopting the name Maimon out of admiration for Moses Maimonides. His unorthodox commentaries on Maimonides earned him the enmity of other Jews, and he left Poland at age 25 to wander through Europe as a scholar and tutor. A skeptic who emphasized the limits of pure thought, he is best known for his Search for the Transcendental Philosophy (1790), a major critique of Kantian philosophy. His other writings include Philosophical Dictionary (1791) and Critical Investigations of the Human Spirit (1797)

{i} (1754-1800) German philosopher of Jewish parentage