Talk:Salomon Maimon

Reference in The Chosen
"'[...]Now I am going to tell you another story, also a true story, about a Jewish boy who lived in Poland in the second half of the eighteenth century. [...] This boy, Reuven, was brilliant, literally a genius. His name was Solomon, and later in life he changed his long Polish name to Maimon. When he was young, he found that the Talmud could not satisfy his hunger for knowledge. His mind would not let him rest. He wanted to know what was happening in the outside world. German was by then a great scientific and cultural language, and he decided to teach himself to read German. But even after he learned German he was not satisfied, because the reading of secular books was forbidden. Finally at the age of twenty-five, he abandoned his wife and child and after many hardships came to Berlin where he joined a group of philosophers, read Aristotle, Maimonides, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume and Kant, and began to write philosophical books. He had a great mind, but it never left him in peace. He wandered from city to city, never finding roots anywhere, never satisfied, and finally died at forty-seven on the estate of a kind-hearted Christian who had befriended him." from The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, Chapter Six This seems important in some way. Dwarf Kirlston 17:25, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

Optimism
Call me Candide, but I believe that some day, in a far, distant future, fortunate English–language readers will be able to obtain a copy of Maimon's Essay on the Transcendental Philosophy.Lestrade (talk) 12:05, 8 October 2008 (UTC)Lestrade
 * A short 26 months later and I hold in my hand a copy of the book courtesy of Continuum International Publishing Group in London, ISBN 978-1-4411-1384-9.

kant's letter
The correspondence bet. Kant and Maimon and Kant's letter to Rheinhold requires more context, see ISBN 0521354013. Also the significance of Maimon's autobiography as a archetype should be discussed a bit. I'll try to get to it later. (Rischin mentions it in passing 1962, Socher treats it as a premise, but I am still looking for a through discussion)Oysvorf (talk) 07:05, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

Name
As long as the page name retains 'Salomon' According to the Germanic convention, the contents should adhere. Oysvorf (talk) 08:20, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Autobiography.
Views of the significance of the autobiography are needed, but user:RachelCRose's contributions were an egregious violation of NPOV, and I removed it. Oysvorf (talk) 08:23, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

user:RachelCRose claimed on my talk page and in edits to this page that Solomon Maimon does not mention a visit to the Maggid. For those who cannot read the original in German, the event is described in the neighborhood of page 170 in the University of Illinois Press edition of the autobiography (ISBN 978-0252069772), where he is called "B. of M." A comparison with Cheshek Shlomo will confirm that this is indeed Ber of Mezrich. There are many scholarly secondary sources that support this (rather obvious) conclusion, including the one I cited, a very good book by Socher (ISBN 978-0804751360). Oysvorf (talk) 06:31, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

User:129.2.129.26
User:129.2.129.26 has now twice restored and expanded on WP:OR and WP:POV edits made by user:RachelCRose. The editorial commentary supplied in these edits do not reflect the introduction to the translation of the autobiography that they cite, nor do they reflects the contents of that biography. I will once again remove them. I am asking that these user(s) refrain from editing the article without discussion on this page. Oysvorf (talk) 16:15, 12 March 2013 (UTC)