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Philosophy and the Jewish tradition : lectures and essays / by Aryeh Leo Motzkin ; edited by Yehuda Halper.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Jewish history and culture ; v. 34.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 161 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004217713
  • 9004217711
  • 9004217703
  • 9789004217706
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Philosophy and the Jewish tradition.DDC classification:
  • 181/.06 23
LOC classification:
  • B154 .M68 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)395794

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.