Philosophy and the Jewish tradition : lectures and essays /
Motzkin, Aryeh Leo, 1934-2006.
Philosophy and the Jewish tradition : lectures and essays / by Aryeh Leo Motzkin ; edited by Yehuda Halper. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xxi, 161 pages) - Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 34 . - Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 34. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plato and Aristotle on the vocation of the philosopher -- Halevi's Kuzari as a platonic dialogue -- Maimonides and the imagination -- Elia del Medigo, Averroes and Averroism -- Paduan Averroism reconsidered -- Philosophy and mysticism -- Maimonides and Spinoza on good and evil -- A note on natural right, nature and reason in Spinoza -- Spinoza and Luzzatto : philosophy and religion -- On the interpretation of Maimonides: the cases of Samuel David Luzzatto and Ahad Haʻam -- Harry A. Wolfson as interpreter of medieval thought -- On the limitations of human knowledge.
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.
9789004217713 9004217711 9004217703 9789004217706
015869981 Uk
Jewish philosophy.
Judaism and philosophy.
Philosophie juive.
Judaïsme et philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY--Eastern.
Jewish philosophy
Judaism and philosophy
B154 / .M68 2012eb
181/.06
Philosophy and the Jewish tradition : lectures and essays / by Aryeh Leo Motzkin ; edited by Yehuda Halper. - Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012. - 1 online resource (xxi, 161 pages) - Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 34 . - Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 34. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Plato and Aristotle on the vocation of the philosopher -- Halevi's Kuzari as a platonic dialogue -- Maimonides and the imagination -- Elia del Medigo, Averroes and Averroism -- Paduan Averroism reconsidered -- Philosophy and mysticism -- Maimonides and Spinoza on good and evil -- A note on natural right, nature and reason in Spinoza -- Spinoza and Luzzatto : philosophy and religion -- On the interpretation of Maimonides: the cases of Samuel David Luzzatto and Ahad Haʻam -- Harry A. Wolfson as interpreter of medieval thought -- On the limitations of human knowledge.
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.
9789004217713 9004217711 9004217703 9789004217706
015869981 Uk
Jewish philosophy.
Judaism and philosophy.
Philosophie juive.
Judaïsme et philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY--Eastern.
Jewish philosophy
Judaism and philosophy
B154 / .M68 2012eb
181/.06