Research On Nachman Krochmal's Thought

Nachman Krochmal(1785-1840)was the leader of the Jewish Enlightenment Movement,one of the pioneers of modern Jewish studies,and the first Jewish philosopher to use Jewish history as a philosophical argument.He was also known as Eastern Mendelssohn.Krochmal's thought laid the ideological foundation for the Jewish Reform Movement and had an important impact on the Jewish educational movement.Krochmal advocated using critical tools to study the Bible and other classical texts critically,so that people could better see the development and evolution of Jewish history,and opened a new way for Jewish history compilation.Krochmal was deeply influenced by Lev,Schelling,Hegel and others.He believed that God was regarded as the absolute spirit of the Jewish nation,or as the dominant intellectual force in the world,and was the core of Jewish self-consciousness.He claims that all religions are spiritually based and that Jews have a unique view of God as the essence of spirit.This unique view of God is the product of Jewish national consciousness and has important historical significance.In the era of krochmal's life,scholars were reluctant to associate religion with philosophy.on the other hand,krochmal believed that religion and philosophy were closely related,so he introduced the view of historical philosophy into Jewish history.In the pre-krochmal era,scholars lacked a systematic understanding of Jewish history in the Biblical era.When they searched for a particular history,they often tried their best to think about Rabbi's original text,and seldom considered the evolution and development of this history.The brilliance of krochmal's philosophy of history lies in the unification of historical inquiry and philosophical exposition of historical development process.He believes that the history of Jewish nation,like other nations,must go throughthree stages: formation stage,maturity stage and collapse and extinction stage.But Jewish nation can recover from decline and start a new development cycle with its tenacious regeneration ability.?Krochmal's thought is one of the ideological components of the Jewish Reform Movement.The shadow of krochmal's thought can also be seen in Abraham Geiger's spiritual historicism.In the process of modernization,the confrontation between tradition and modernity has never ceased.Krochmal pointed out that religion is facing a threat.Traditionalism is thicker than the past and lacks the spirit of the times.Modernism is thicker than the past and refuses to study traditional values.Krochmal emphasized that the main task of Judaism research is to study deeply the purpose of modern thought and its internal relationship with Jewish values based on the accumulated history of Jews,so as to find a way between tradition and modern society that can not deviate from tradition but also adapt to the development of modern society,and make modern philosophy and historical ideas harmonious with the traditional history of Jews.Krochmal advocates using critical tools to study the Bible and other classical texts critically,so that people can better see a clear and complete Jewish historical development and its evolution process,so that people can better understand the historical development of their own nation,thus opening up a new path for Jewish historical codification.