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Salomon Maimon | |
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Born | Shlomo ben Joshua[2] 1753 |
Died | 22 November 1800 |
Education | Gymnasium Christianeum |
Notable work | Essay on transcendental philosophy
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Era | 18th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | German idealism German skepticism[1] |
Main interests | Epistemology, metaphysics, ethics |
Notable ideas | Critique of Kant's quid juris and quid facti,[2] the Doctrine of Differentials (die Lehre vom Differential),[2] the Principle of Determinability (der Satz der Bestimmbarkeit)[2][3] |
Salomon Maimon (/ˈmaɪmɒn/; German: [ˈmaɪmoːn]; Lithuanian: Salomonas Maimonas; Hebrew: שלמה בן יהושע מימון Shlomo ben Yehoshua Maimon; 1753 – 22 November 1800) was a philosopher born of Lithuanian Jewish parentage in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, present-day Belarus. His work was written in German and in Hebrew.