Editing Moritz Lazarus (section)

== "Die Ethik des Judenthums" ==
Of his more important contributions to Jewish literature may be cited: "Der Prophet Jeremias" (1894), a lecture, and "Die Ethik des Judenthums"(part i, 1898; 2d ed., 1899; translated into English by [[Henrietta Szold]], and published by the [[Jewish Publication Society of America]], 1900). In the latter work Lazarus takes [[ethics]] as the resultant rather than as the basic principle of religion, and, following [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]], establishes as the principle of Jewish ethics in particular the co-equality of [[God]] and the [[law of autonomy]], whereby the Jewish conception of God has, of course, been given up. Lazarus fails to show the historical development of the [[morals]] of Judaism according to the various sources, as has been pointed out by Herman Cohen ("Das Problem der Jüdischen Sittenlehre, eine Kritik von Lazarus, 'Ethik des Judenthums,'" in "Monatsschrift," xliii, 385 et seq.).