Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato
Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age without Plato

Author: Yehuda Halper

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9004468765

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Winner of the 2022 Goldstein-Goren Book Award from the Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from Plato, or on Aristotle. Out of these sources, Jewish authors of this period formed two distinct views of Socrates: one as a wise, ascetic, monotheist, and the other as a vocal skeptic. The latter view has its roots in Plato's Apology where Socrates describes his divine mandate to question all knowledge, including knowledge of the divine. After exploring how this and similar questions arise in the works of Judah Halevi and the Hebrew Averroes, Halper traces how such open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.

Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato
Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato

Author: Yehuda Halper

Publisher: Maimonides Library for Philoso

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004448735

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Halper's study traces how the open-questioning of the divine arises in the works of Maimonides, Jacob Anatoli, Gersonides, and Abraham Bibago.

Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought
Averroes and Averroism in Medieval Jewish Thought

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-12-21

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 9004685685

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The Andalusian Muslim philosopher Averroes (1126–1198) is known for his authoritative commentaries on Aristotle and for his challenging ideas about the relationship between philosophy and religion, and the place of religion in society. Among Jewish authors, he found many admirers and just as many harsh critics. This volume brings together, for the first time, essays investigating Averroes’s complex reception, in different philosophical topics and among several Jewish authors, with special attention to its relation to the reception of Maimonides.

Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context
Plato's Republic in the Islamic Context

Author: Alexander Orwin

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1648250114

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"The goal of the book is to provide an anthology covering the reception of Plato's Republic in the Islamic world, with a focus on Averroes's outstanding but underappreciated commentary on Plato's most famous dialogue. Despite the publication of Ralph Lerner's excellent English translation almost 50 years ago, very few scholarly studies have been written on it. We propose the following chapters, keeping in mind that some might be changed owing to collaboration with contributors"--

I Judge No One
I Judge No One

Author: David Lloyd Dusenbury

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-01-01

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 019769618X

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Why was Jesus, who said "I judge no one," put to death for a political crime? Of course, this is a historical question--but it is not only historical. Jesus's life became a philosophical theme in the first centuries of our era, when "pagan" and Christian philosophers clashed over the meaning of his sayings and the significance of his death. Modern philosophers, too, such as Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche, have tried to retrace the arc of Jesus's life and death. I Judge No One is a philosophical reading of the four memoirs, or "gospels," that were fashioned by early Christ-believers and collected in the New Testament. It offers original ways of seeing a deeply enigmatic figure who calls himself the Son of Man. David Lloyd Dusenbury suggests that Jesus offered his contemporaries a scandalous double claim. First, that human judgements are pervasive and deceptive; and second, that even divine laws can only be fulfilled in the human experience of love. Though his life led inexorably to a grim political death, what Jesus's sayings revealed--and still reveal--is that our highest desires lie beyond the political.

Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation
Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation

Author: Katja Krause

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2022-06-29

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 1000620182

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This innovative collection showcases the importance of the relationship between translation and experience in premodern science, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to offer a nuanced understanding of knowledge transfer across premodern time and space. The volume considers experience as a tool and object of science in the premodern world, using this idea as a jumping-off point from which to view translation as a process of interaction between diff erent epistemic domains. The book is structured around four dimensions of translation—between terms within and across languages; across sciences and scientific norms; between verbal and visual systems; and through the expertise of practitioners and translators—which raise key questions on what constituted experience of the natural world in the premodern area and the impact of translation processes and agents in shaping experience. Providing a wide-ranging global account of historical studies on the travel and translation of experience in the premodern world, this book will be of interest to scholars in history, the history of translation, and the history and philosophy of science.

Socrates and the Jews
Socrates and the Jews

Author: Miriam Leonard

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2012-06-15

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0226472477

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Taking on the question of how the glories of the classical world could be reconciled with the Bible, this book explains how Judaism played a vital role in defining modern philhellenism.

Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 2, 2023
Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion Volume 2, 2023

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-09-04

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 900450866X

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The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma.

Plato at the Googleplex
Plato at the Googleplex

Author: Rebecca Goldstein

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0307378195

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Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.