Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age
Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age

Author: Samuel Lebens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 019253937X

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Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism. This methodology reached its pinnacle in the medieval period with figures like Maimonides and continued into the modern period with the likes of Rosenzweig. The explosion of Anglo-American/analytic philosophy in the twentieth century means that there is now a host of material, largely unexplored by Jewish philosophy, with which to explore, analyze, and develop the Jewish tradition. Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age features contributions from leading scholars in the field which investigate Jewish texts, traditions, and/or thinkers, in order to showcase what Jewish philosophy can be in an analytic age. United by the new and engaging style of philosophy, the collection explores rabbinic and Talmudic philosophy; Maimonidean philosophy; philosophical theology; and ethics and value theory.

Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age
Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age

Author: Samuel Lebens

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-08-01

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0192539388

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Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism. This methodology reached its pinnacle in the medieval period with figures like Maimonides and continued into the modern period with the likes of Rosenzweig. The explosion of Anglo-American/analytic philosophy in the twentieth century means that there is now a host of material, largely unexplored by Jewish philosophy, with which to explore, analyze, and develop the Jewish tradition. Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age features contributions from leading scholars in the field which investigate Jewish texts, traditions, and/or thinkers, in order to showcase what Jewish philosophy can be in an analytic age. United by the new and engaging style of philosophy, the collection explores rabbinic and Talmudic philosophy; Maimonidean philosophy; philosophical theology; and ethics and value theory.

Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age
Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age

Author: Samuel Lebens

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780191848407

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An authoritative work in the philosophy of Judaism with chapters engaging in Biblical, Talmudic, Medieval, Rationalistic, and Mystical texts to offer clear and extensive analysis of how Jewish philosophy might have looked in an analytic age.

A Philosophical Retrospective
A Philosophical Retrospective

Author: Alan Montefiore

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0231153007

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This title looks at the conflict between two very different understandings of identity: the more traditional view that an identity carries with it certain duties and obligations, and an opposing view in which there can be no rationally compelling move from statements of fact to 'judgments of value'. According to this second view, individuals must take responsibility for determining their own values and obligations. The book illustrates through personal experience the practical implications of this characteristically philosophical debate.

A Secular Age
A Secular Age

Author: Charles Taylor

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-09-17

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 0674986911

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The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others.

Knowledge, Belief, and God
Knowledge, Belief, and God

Author: Matthew A. Benton

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 0198798709

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Recent decades have seen a fertile period of theorizing within mainstream epistemology which has had a dramatic impact on how epistemology is done. Investigations into contextualist and pragmatic dimensions of knowledge suggest radically new ways of meeting skeptical challenges and of understanding the relation between the epistemological and practical environment. New insights from social epistemology and formal epistemology about defeat, testimony, a priority, probability, and the nature of evidence all have a potentially revolutionary effect on how we understand our epistemological place in the world. Religion is the place where such rethinking can potentially have its deepest impact and importance. Yet there has been surprisingly little infiltration of these new ideas into philosophy of religion and the epistemology of religious belief. Knowledge, Belief, and God incorporates these myriad new developments in mainstream epistemology, and extends these developments to questions and arguments in religious epistemology. The investigations proposed in this volume offer substantial new life, breadth, and sophistication to issues in the philosophy of religion and analytic theology. They pose original questions and shed new light on long-standing issues in religious epistemology; and these developments will in turn generate contributions to epistemology itself, since religious belief provides a vital testing ground for recent epistemological ideas.

Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed

Author: Daniel Frank

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1108480519

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This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.

Is There a Jewish Philosophy?
Is There a Jewish Philosophy?

Author: Leon Roth

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781800340824

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Leon Roth (1896-1963) was the first professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He saw it as his purpose to encourage his students to think, and to think about their Judaism. Typical of his approach is the question with which this text opens: in what sense can we talk about Jewish philosophy, and what can we expect to find if we look for it? Defining philosophy as 'the search, through thought, for the permanent', the volume argues that in order to say whether there is a truly Jewish philosophy, one has to 'rethink fundamentals': those elements in our lives, in history, in nature which appear to be not incidental and trivial but basic. The twelve essays published here represent a selection of Roth's explorations of various aspects of his theme.

The Significance of Religious Experience
The Significance of Religious Experience

Author: Howard Wettstein

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-11-12

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 0190226757

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In this volume of essays, Howard Wettstein explores the foundations of religious commitment. His orientation is broadly naturalistic, but not in the mode of reductionism or eliminativism. This collection explores questions of broad religious interest, but does so through a focus on the author's religious tradition, Judaism. Among the issues explored are the nature and role of awe, ritual, doctrine, religious experience; the distinction between belief and faith; problems of evil and suffering with special attention to the Book of Job and to the Akedah, the biblical story of the binding of Isaac; the virtue of forgiveness. One of the book's highlights is its literary (as opposed to philosophical) approach to theology that at the same time makes room for philosophical exploration of religion. Another is Wettstein's rejection of the usual picture that sees religious life as sitting atop a distinctive metaphysical foundation, one that stands in need of epistemological justification.