A copy of Moses Mendelssohn's writings led this thinker to cast Mendelssohn as a man that tells the parable of the rings in another of his works.
In one work, this man distinguishes between the Christian religion and the titular one by arguing that the language of the former is so ambiguous that "throughout history, there is scarcely a single passage that has been thought of in the same way." In addition to writing The Religion of Christ and The Christianity of Reason, this author's Axioms were written in response to feuds he had with Johann Goeze and Hermann Reimarius. This author wrote the poetic manifesto Ernst and Folk and outlined an Education of the Human Race. Another of this writer's works attacks Johann Wincklemann by claiming that the sculptor must sculpt a "moment in time" while the poet distills it through time. A copy of Moses Mendelssohn's writings led this thinker to cast Mendelssohn as a man that tells the parable of the rings in another of his works. For 10 points, name this Enlightenment thinker who wrote Laocoon and the play Nathan the Wise.
In one work, this man distinguishes between the Christian religion and the titular one by arguing that the language of the former is so ambiguous that "throughout history, there is scarcely a single passage that has been thought of in the same way."
Gotthold Lessing