Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition Lectures and Essays 1st Edition by Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Yehuda Halper, Eva Brann 9789004217706 9004217703

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ISBN 10: 9004217703

ISBN 13: 9789004217706

Author: Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Yehuda Halper, Eva Brann

Aryeh Motzin’s extraordinary essays on the encounter between Jewish tradition and philosophy are collected in this volume. Motzkin examines how medieval Jewish thinkers understood Plato and Aristotle, and how these medieval thinkers were, in turn, understood by modern Jewish thinkers.

Table of contents:

1. Plato and Aristotle on the vocation of the philosopher

2. Halevi’s Kuzari as a platonic dialogue

3. Maimonides and the imagination

4. Elia del Medigo, Averroes and Averroism

5. Paduan Averroism reconsidered

6. Philosophy and mysticism

7. Maimonides and Spinoza on good and evil

8. A note on natural right, nature and reason in Spinoza

9. Spinoza and Luzzatto: philosophy and religion

10. On the interpretation of Maimonides: the cases of Samuel David Luzzatto and Ahad Haʻam

11. Harry A. Wolfson as interpreter of medieval thought

12. On the limitations of human knowledge

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