Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz (Sachsen) on January 22nd, 1729 and passed away at the age of 52 on February 15th, 1781.

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Stats: The most read book by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing on Book Notification is Nathan der Weise, the first novel in the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Plays series.

Below is a complete list of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series. The most popular series by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Plays.

List of Plays in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Emilia Galotti
1772
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2
8
Nathan der Weise
1779
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List of Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Books in Publication Order

Presents philosophers' key works in accurate, accessible translations with introductions and notes.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Plato: The Symposium (By: M.C. Howatson, Frisbee Sheffield)
-380
Go
2
Theaetetus/Sophist (By: Harold North Fowler, Francis Macdonald Cornford)
-370
Go
3
Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
-350
Go
4
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics (By: Roger Crisp)
-350
Go
5
Eudemian Ethics (By: Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf)
-322
Go
6
On Moral Ends (By: Julia Annas, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Raphael Woolf)
-45
Go
7
Outlines of Scepticism (By: Jonathan Barnes, Julia Annas, Sextus Empiricus)
200
Go
8
On the Trinity (By: Augustine of Hippo, Gareth B. Matthews, Stephen McKenna)
416
Go
9
Summa Theologiae / Questions on God (By: Brian Davies, Thomas Aquinas, Brian Leftow)
1273
Go
10
Cause, Principle and Unity and Essays on Magic (By: Giordano Bruno, Richard J. Blackwell, Alfonso Ingegno, Robert De Lucca)
1583
Go
11
Francis Bacon: The New Organon (By: Lisa Jardine, Francis Bacon, Michael Silverthorne)
1620
Go
12
Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy (By: John Cottingham)
1641
Go
13
Antoine Arnauld and Pierre Nicole: Logic or the Art of Thinking (By: Pierre Nicole, Antoine Arnauld, Jill Vance Buroker)
1662
Go
14
Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy (By: Margaret Cavendish, Eileen O'Neill)
1668
Go
15
Tractatus Theologico-Politicus: Gebhardt Edition (By: Baruch Spinoza, Brad S. Gregory, Samuel Shirley, Maarten van Buuren)
1670
Go
16
The Search after Truth (By: Nicolas Malebranche, Thomas M. Lennon)
1675
Go
17
Spinoza: Ethics: Proved in Geometrical Order (By: Baruch Spinoza, Michael Silverthorne, Matthew Kisner)
1677
Go
18
Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion (By: David Scott, Nicholas Jolley, Nicolas Malebranche)
1688
Go
19
Locke on Toleration (By: Richard Vernon)
1689
Go
20
Berkeley: Philosophical Writings (By: George Berkeley, Desmond M. Clarke)
1709
Go
21
Shaftesbury: Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (By: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lawrence E. Klein)
1711
Go
22
A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality: With a Treatise of Freewill (By: Ralph Cudworth, Sarah Hutton)
1731
Go
23
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (By: Stephen Buckle)
1748
Go
24
8
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (By: Adam Smith)
1759
Go
25
Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (By: Immanuel Kant, Robert B. Louden, Manfred Kühn)
1785
Go
26
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Jens Timmermann, Mary J. Gregor, Christine M. Korsgaard)
1785
Go
27
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science (By: Immanuel Kant, Michael Friedman)
1786
Go
28
Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (By: Immanuel Kant, Mary J. Gregor, Andrews Reath)
1788
Go
29
Attempt at a Critique of All Revelation (By: Allen Wood, Garrett Green)
1792
Go
30
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (By: Immanuel Kant)
1793
Go
31
Novalis: Fichte Studies (By: Novalis, Jane Kneller)
1796
Go
32
Foundations of Natural Right (By: Frederick Neuhouser, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Michael Baur)
1797
Go
33
The Metaphysics of Morals (By: Immanuel Kant, Lara Denis, Mary J. Gregor)
1797
Go
34
The System of Ethics (By: Daniel Breazeale, Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Guenter Zöller)
1798
Go
35
Schleiermacher: On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Richard E. Crouter)
1799
Go
36
Hamann: Writings on Philosophy and Language: Risk Factors and Strategies for Prevention (By: Stephen Lord)
1825
Go
37
On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany and Other Writings (By: Heinrich Heine, Terry P. Pinkard, Howard Pollack-Milgate)
1835
Go
38
On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental Development of the Human Species (By: Wilhelm von Humboldt, Peter Heath, Michael Losonsky)
1836
Go
39
Fear and Trembling (By: Søren Kierkegaard, Sylvia Walsh, C. Stephen Evans)
1843
Go
40
Untimely Meditations (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Daniel Breazeale)
1876
Go
41
Daybreak (By: Brian Leiter, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark)
1881
Go
42
The Gay Science (By: Bernard Williams, Friedrich Nietzsche, Josefine Nauckhoff)
1882
Go
43
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
1883
Go
44
Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Judith Norman, Rolf-Peter Horstmann)
1886
Go
45
The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy (By: Allison P. Coudert, Anne Conway, Taylor Corse)
1982
Go
46
Orations on Philosophy and Education (By: Philipp Melanchthon, Christine F. Salazar, Sachiko Kusukawa)
1989
Go
47
Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity (By: Thomas Hobbes, Vere C. Chappell, John Bramhall)
1995
Go
48
La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings (By: Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Ann Thomson)
1996
Go
49
A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature (By: Robert Boyle, Michael Hunter, Edward B. Davis)
1996
Go
50
Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings (By: Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Moses Mendelssohn)
1997
Go
51
The World and Other Writings (By: René Descartes, Stephen Gaukroger)
1998
Go
52
Herder: Philosophical Writings (By: Johann Gottfried Herder, Michael N. Forster)
1998
Go
53
Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Andrew Bowie)
1998
Go
54
The Birth of Tragedy and Other Writings ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
1999
Go
55
Disputed Questions on the Virtues (By: Thomas Aquinas, E.M. Atkins, Rev. Thomas Williams)
1999
Go
56
Treatise on Tolerance and Other Writings (By: Voltaire )
2000
Go
57
Philosophical & Theological Writings
2001
Go
58
Nietzsche: The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols: And Other Writings (By: Friedrich Nietzsche, Aaron Ridley, Judith Norman)
2001
Go
59
Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics (By: Friedrich Schleiermacher, Louise Adey Huish, Robert B. Louden)
2002
Go
60
Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics (By: J.M. Bernstein)
2002
Go
61
Writings from the Early Notebooks ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
2003
Go
62
Writings from the Late Notebooks ( By: Friedrich Nietzsche)
2003
Go
63
Isaac Newton: Philosophical Writings (By: Isaac Newton, Andrew Janiak)
2004
Go
64
Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason (By: Immanuel Kant, Gary Hatfield)
2004
Go
65
Reinhold: Letters on the Kantian Philosophy (By: Karl P. Ameriks, James Hebbeler)
2005
Go
66
Medieval Islamic Philosophical Writings (By: Muhammad Ali Khalidi)
2005
Go
67
Sextus Empiricus: Against the Logicians (By: Richard Bett)
2005
Go
68
Augustine: On the Free Choice of the Will, On Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (By: Peter King)
2006
Go
69
Medieval Jewish Philosophical Writings (By: Charles Harry Manekin)
2007
Go
70
Hume: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: And Other Writings (By: David Hume)
2007
Go
71
Greek and Roman Aesthetics (By: Oleg V. Bychkov, Anne Sheppard)
2010
Go
72
Kant: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime and Other Writings (By: Paul Guyer, Patrick Frierson)
2011
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on January 22nd, 1729. Gotthold passed away February 15th, 1781 at 52 years old. Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz (Sachsen).

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was the author of the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Plays series which consists of 2 novels. The Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Plays series started in 1772 with the novel Emilia Galotti. The most recently released novel in the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Plays series was Nathan der Weise which was released in 1779. There are no upcoming novels for the Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Plays series.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing also wrote the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy series which has 72 books including Plato: The Symposium and Theaetetus/Sophist.

Note: With over 2000 works accredited to Gotthold in non-English, we add books, plays etc by request.

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: F.A.Q

When was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Born?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born on January 22nd, 1729.

When did Gotthold Ephraim Lessing die?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing died on February 15th, 1781 at 52 years old.

Where was Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Born?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was born in Kamenz (Sachsen).

What was the first book Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote?

The first book written by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was Emilia Galotti, published in 1772.

What was the most recent book Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote?

His most recently released work was Philosophical & Theological Writings on January 1st, 2001.

What is the most popular book by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Gotthold Ephraim Lessing book is Nathan der Weise. Here are his most popular books:
  1. Nathan der Weise (8)

How many books has Gotthold Ephraim Lessing written?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing has written 3 books. 1 book in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy Series, 2 books in the Plays.

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