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Author: Meyer Waxman
Publisher: Columbia University Oriental Studies
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 188
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the philosophies of Hasdai Crescas during the 1300's who swam against the current of the words of his contemporaries. He opposed the speculative reasoning of Aristotle and dared to criticize the introduction of Aristotelian views into the religious philosophy of his own people.
Author: Hasdai Crescas
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 1438400063
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the fourteenth century, there was a general demoralization in the Jewish community in Spain. Many Jews were on the brink of conversion. Rabbi Crescas met the Christian challenge by writing this pithy book refuting the principles of the Christian religion. He argued that the basic Christian doctrines, namely, original sin, salvation, trinity, incarnation, virgin birth, transubstantiation, baptism, the messiah, a new covenant, and demons, contradict human reason, thereby calling into question Christianity's claim to be a true religion. The Refutation is an important document of the medieval Jewish-Christian debate and is also especially important for the history of Jewish philosophy in general.
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-11-10
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 0191037893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is the first complete English translation of Hasdai Crescas's Light of the Lord. Light of the Lord is widely acknowledged as a seminal work of medieval Jewish philosophy and second in importance only to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. Crescas takes on not only Maimonides but, through him, Aristotle, and challenges views of physics and metaphysics that had become entrenched in medieval thought. Once the Aristotelian underpinnings of medieval thought are dislodged, Crescas introduces alternative physical views and reinstates the classical Jewish God as a God of love and benefaction rather than a self-intellecting intellect. The end for humankind then is to become attached in love to the God of love through devoted service.
Author: Harvey Warren Zev
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-03-27
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9004453903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines central themes in the thought of Rabbi Hasdai Crescas (c. 1340-1410/11), the great Catalan Jewish philosopher who contributed to the revolution of modern science and profoundly influenced Spinoza. Part I treats of Crescas' radical critique of the Aristotelian concepts of space, time, and the vacuum, and analyzes his vision of an infinite universe; it discusses his criticisms of Maimonides' proofs of God, and expounds his own proof; and it concludes with a discussion of his concept of God as infinite Love. Part II contains three essays on Crescas' strictly deterministic theory of human choice.
Author: Daniel H. Frank
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-09-11
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780521655743
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Author: Seymour Feldman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136128344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe expulsion from Spain did not only result in the destruction and dispersion of Spanish Jewry but led to a crisis in Jewish faith. Don Isaac Abravanel provided a systematic treatment of the main philosophical and theological beliefs of Judaism in an attempt to resolve the inner doubts of his co-religionists. In their Italian exile his son Judah too recognized that Jews were now living in a new cultural world, but he forged a different road for Jews to pursue in their entry into the culture of the Renaissance. This book presents a picture of one family facing the challenges of a new era in Jewish history.
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Published: 1921
Total Pages: 1136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers topics in philosophy, psychology, and scientific methods. Vols. 31- include "A Bibliography of philosophy," 1933-
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Published: 1926
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ari Ackerman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-08-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9004518657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work focuses on the conception of God of the medieval Jewish philosopher and legal scholar, Hasdai Crescas (1340-1410/11). It demonstrates that Crescas’ God is infinitely creative and good and explores the parallel that Crescas implicitly draws between God as creator and legislator.
Author: Dagobert D. Runes
Publisher: Citadel Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 9780806522890
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