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From this latter account there emerge several features of medieval Jewish philosophy worth emphasizing. (Some of these features are shared by other medieval intellectual traditions, such as kabbalah, and Christian and Muslim philosophies.) First, the unity of the Law and wisdom.
Jan 24, 2006 · Moses ben Maimon [known to English speaking audiences as Maimonides and Hebrew speaking as Rambam] (1138–1204) is the greatest Jewish philosopher of the medieval period and is still widely read today.
Maimonides is a medieval Jewish philosopher with considerable influence on Jewish thought, and on philosophy in general. Maimonides also was an important codifier of Jewish law. His views and writings hold a prominent place in Jewish intellectual history.
The story of medieval Judaism is one in which the Jews lived as part of societies that aimed for purity and/or supremacy of a faith that was not theirs. Thus Jewish life was influenced significantly by the political machinations of Muslims and Christians.
Jan 4, 2012 · Crescas assembles traditional Jewish opinion, the diverse Aristotelian sources, the neo-platonic thought of the apostate Abner of Burgos and the new science of scholastics of the 14 th century to create an original philosophical opinion and critique of Aristotelianism known to the medieval period.
Jun 18, 2019 · Subsequent chapters explore, in conversation with our cast of philosophical protagonists, a whole host of the most central issues to animate medieval Jewish philosophy: proofs for Gods existence, debates about the nature of God, and our ability to describe Him (chapter four); the problem of evil, the threat of theological fatalism, omniscience, ...
Written by a distinguished group of experts in the field, its chapters examine how Jewish thinking was modified in its encounter with modern Europe and America and challenge long-standing assumptions about the nature and pur-pose of modern Jewish philosophy.
