Salomon Maimon

Salomon Maimon
Salomon Maimon
Born
Shlomo ben Joshua[2]

1753
Died22 November 1800
EducationGymnasium Christianeum
Era18th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolGerman 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 (/ˈmmɒn/; German: [ˈmaɪmoːn]; Lithuanian: Salomonas Maimonas; Hebrew: שלמה בן יהושע מימוןShlomo ben Yehoshua Maimon; 1753 – 22 November 1800) was a philosopher born of Lithuanian Jewish parentage in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, present-day Belarus. Some of his work was written in the German language.

  1. ^ Bransen, Jan. The Antinomy of Thought: Maimonian Skepticism and the Relation between Thoughts and Objects. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1991.
  2. ^ a b c d Kelley, Andrew. "Solomon Maimon (1753–1800)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  3. ^ The Principle of Determinability is the thesis that we can distinguish between the subject and the predicate of a given synthesis.