Author : Dov Schwartz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9047416848
This volume deals with central issues of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among the subjects treated are divine immanence, the intellect, miracles, and esoteric writing and its limits. This work provides a new perspective on the history of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages.
Author : T. M. Rudavsky
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,90 MB
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0192557653
T. M. Rudavsky presents a new account of the development of Jewish philosophy from the tenth century to Spinoza in the seventeenth, viewed as part of an ongoing dialogue with medieval Christian and Islamic thought. Her aim is to provide a broad historical survey of major figures and schools within the medieval Jewish tradition, focusing on the tensions between Judaism and rational thought. This is reflected in particular philosophical controversies across a wide range of issues in metaphysics, language, cosmology, and philosophical theology. The book illuminates our understanding of medieval thought by offering a much richer view of the Jewish philosophical tradition, informed by the considerable recent research that has been done in this area.
Author : Daniel Rynhold
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 28,88 MB
Release : 2009-04-15
Category : History
ISBN :
Focusing on the central philosophical questions of the Middle Ages, Daniel Rynhold offers a concise introduction to topics such as God and creation, human freewill, biblical prophecy, the Commandments, the divine attributes and immortality.
Author : Robert J. Dobie
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813231337
Navigating the seemingly competing claims of human reason and divine revelation to truth is without a doubt one of the central problems of medieval philosophy. Medieval thinkers argued a whole gamut of positions on the proper relation of religious faith to human reason. Thinking Through Revelation attempts to ask deeper questions: what possibilities for philosophical thought did divine revelation open up for medieval thinkers? How did the contents of the sacred scriptures of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam put into question established philosophical assumptions? But most fundamentally, how did not merely the content of the sacred books but the very mode in which revelation itself is understood to come to us – as a book “sent down” from on high, as a covenant between God and his people, or as incarnate person - create or foreclose possibilities for the resolution of the philosophical problems that the Abrahamic revelations themselves raised?
Author : Steven M. Nadler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1107037867
The first of its kind, this essay collection offers an extensive examination of Spinoza's relationship to medieval Jewish philosophy.
Author : Raphael Jospe
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 22,66 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages presents an overview of the formative period of medieval Jewish philosophy, from its beginnings with Saadiah Gaon to its apex in Maimonides, when Jews living in Islamic countries and writing in Arabic were the first to develop a conscious and continuous tradition of philosophy.The book includes a dictionary of selected philosophic terms, and discusses the Greek and Arabic schools of thought that influenced the Jewish thinkers and to which they responded. The discussion covers: the nature of Jewish philosophy, Saadiah Gaon and the Kalam, Jewish Neo-Platonism, Bahya ibn Paqudah, Abraham ibn Ezra's philosophical Bible exegesis, Judah Ha-Levi's critique of philosophy, Abraham ibn Daud and the transition to Aristotelianism, Maimonides, and the controversy over Maimonides and philosophy.
Author : Daniel H. Frank
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521655743
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Author : James T. Robinson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 39,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004174508
In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than Maimonides (1138-1204) philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader. This collection of papers, originating at the 2007 EAJS colloquium, places primary emphasis on this influence not on Maimonides himself but the many movements he inspired. Using Maimonideanism as an interpretive lens, the authors of this volume representing a variety of fields and disciplines develop new approaches to and fresh perspectives on the peculiar dynamic of Judaism and philosophy. Focusing on social and cultural processes as well as philosophical ideas and arguments, they point toward an original reconceptualization of Jewish thought.
Author : International Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 11,49 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780838636435
"Jewish Philosophy and the Academy reflects in broad terms on the current state of Jewish philosophy in the university. This generation of university teachers lives at a unique historic junction. It is the last to be taught by the giants of European Wissenschaft des Judentums and the first to experience the remarkable expansion of Judaic scholarship in Israel and abroad." "Emil Fackenheim suggests that if we are indebted to Athens for the philosophical method, we are also indebted to Jerusalem for the ethical content of philosophy, which is both an intellectual and a moral challenge. This dual challenge shapes the diverse papers in this volume."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Henrik Lagerlund
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1448 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2010-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 140209728X
This is the first reference ever devoted to medieval philosophy. It covers all areas of the field from 500-1500 including philosophers, philosophies, key terms and concepts. It also provides analyses of particular theories plus cultural and social contexts.
