TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lessing,Gotthold Ephraim
TI  - Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts
AV  - BDL 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Education -- Early works to 1800
N1  - Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Erziehung_des_Menschengeschlechts; Release date is 2005-10-01; Produced by Delphine Lettau, from files obtained from Gutenberg Projekt-DE; Original publication data not identified
N2  - "Die Erziehung des Menschengeschlechts" by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing is a philosophical treatise published in 1780. Lessing compares humanity's development to a child's education, with God as teacher guiding progress through three stages: primitive reward and punishment, immortality of the soul, and finally pure reason. He argues that divine revelation represents evolving human understanding rather than external intervention. The work concludes with a provocative exploration of reincarnation as an opportunity for continued growth, introducing Eastern philosophy to Christian Europe in a radically optimistic vision. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9160
ER  -