Moses Mendelssohn’s work on imperfection might cause us to rethink the concepts of truth which follow from the Kantian tradition; he offers an alternative, if repressed, way of thinking about truth—one oriented by imperfection, rather than the structure of appearance. Understanding Mendelssohn as a philosopher of imperfection should affect how we read the word ‘truth’ in Modern Jewish philosophy: if imperfection is a fundamental ingredient of human life, then it is not something we must do away with, or annihilate, in order to find truth; it is not an obstacle. Rather—if we, like Mendelssohn, assume that we are incomplete and compromised—any relationship to truth must not seek to overcome imperfection and compromise, but proceed through them.

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犹太教与临时社区：摩西·门德尔松（Moses Mendelssohn），关于不完美与真理

摩西·门德尔松（Moses Mendelssohn）关于不完美的工作可能使我们重新思考康德传统所遵循的真理概念。他提供了一种替代方法，即使受到压制，也可以用一种不完美的方式而不是外在的结构来思考真理。将门德尔松理解为不完美的哲学家应该会影响我们如何阅读现代犹太哲学中的“真相”一词：如果不完美是人类生活的基本组成部分，那么我们就不必为了发现而彻底消除或消灭它。真相; 这不是障碍。相反，如果我们像门德尔松一样，假设我们是不完整和妥协的，那么与真理的任何关系都不能寻求克服不完美和妥协，而要继续进行下去。