He expressed his amazement that intolerance should still exist in the state of Frederick the Great.
Thus proving that you can reject the religion of your childhood, without necessarily seeing through millennia of prejudices engendered by that religion's dominance. Fritz!
April 1763
cahn, note that the Treaty of Hubertusburg ending the Seven Years' War was finalized in February 1763.
This, the King denied him.
Fritz! You can do better than this. Nazis are going to be fanboying you in a hundred and fifty years, just you wait.
But King Friedrich Wilhelm II. has granted it upon the petition of the philosopher's widow in the year 1787.
I will say "Go FW2", with the awareness that this might be like freeing Manger: just undoing Fritz's decisions as a matter of principle and sometimes getting it right and sometimes wrong.
The most depressing aspect? The only one aware that the law itself is wrong (i.e. that the crux isn't that exceptions for great thinkers should be made) is Moses Mendelsohn. :(
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Re: Moses Mendelsohn (aka Nicolai, Volume I, b)
Thus proving that you can reject the religion of your childhood, without necessarily seeing through millennia of prejudices engendered by that religion's dominance. Fritz!
April 1763
This, the King denied him.
Fritz! You can do better than this. Nazis are going to be fanboying you in a hundred and fifty years, just you wait.
But King Friedrich Wilhelm II. has granted it upon the petition of the philosopher's widow in the year 1787.
I will say "Go FW2", with the awareness that this might be like freeing Manger: just undoing Fritz's decisions as a matter of principle and sometimes getting it right and sometimes wrong.
The most depressing aspect? The only one aware that the law itself is wrong (i.e. that the crux isn't that exceptions for great thinkers should be made) is Moses Mendelsohn. :(
Yep. :(