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_________ was a Jewish philosopher who argued that religion should be voluntary, that secular states should promote tolerance, and that progress for everyone would come through humanitarianism.

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Moses Mendelssohn

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Moses Mendelssohn was indeed a German-Jewish thinker whose theories are indebted to the Haskalah, the ' Jewish Enlightenment ' of the 18th and 19th periods.

Born into an impoverished Jewish family of Dessau, Principality of Anhalt, and originally intended for a rabbinical career, Mendelssohn trained himself in German thought and literature and from his writings on philosophy and religion, including Christian and Jewish people of German-speaking Europe and beyond came to be regarded as a leading cultural figure of his period.

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