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Alienated Wisdom

2018-08-21 Religion
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Book Synopsis Alienated Wisdom by : Giuseppe Veltri

Download or read book Alienated Wisdom written by Giuseppe Veltri. This book was released on 2018-08-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study addresses problems of an epistemological nature which hinge on the question of how to define Jewish thought. It will take its start in an ancient question, that of the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and then Greco-Roman (and Christian) thought in connection with the query into the history and genealogy of wisdom and knowledge. Our journey into the history of the denomination ‘Jewish philosophy’ will include a leg that will lead us to certain declarations of political, moral, and scientific principles, and then on to the birth of what is called philosophia perennis or, in Christian circles, prisca theologia. Our subject of inquiry will thus be the birth of the concept of Jewish philosophy, Jewish theology and Jewish philosophy of religion. A special emphasis will fall on the topic treated in the last part of this study: Jewish scepticism, a theme that involves a philosophical attitude founded on dialectical "enquiry", as the etymology of the Greek word skepsis properly means.

Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts

2024-03-04 Philosophy
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Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts by : Jonathan Garb

Download or read book Does God Doubt? R. Gershon Henoch Leiner’s Thought in Its Contexts written by Jonathan Garb. This book was released on 2024-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does God Doubt? shows that Rabbi Gershon Henoch Leiner of Radzin considered God to be revealed as doubt. Thus, according to this profound and important nineteenth-century Hasidic leader, doubt is an essential aspect of the human condition, and especially of religious life. His position is shown to be remarkably bold and unique compared to kabbalistic writing, and especially to the Hasidic worlds to which he belonged. At the same time, the roots of his thought are located in earlier discussions of doubt as one of the highest parts of the divine world. Doubt about, in, and of God is part of the Hasidic contribution to modernity.

Socrates, or on Human Knowledge

2019-08-19 History
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Release : 2019-08-19
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Socrates, or on Human Knowledge by : Simone Luzzatto

Download or read book Socrates, or on Human Knowledge written by Simone Luzzatto. This book was released on 2019-08-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates, Or On Human Knowledge, published in Venice in 1651, is the only work written by a Jew that contains so far the promise of a genuinely sceptical investigation into the validity of human certainties. Simone Luzzatto masterly developed this book as a pièce of theatre where Socrates, as main actor, has the task to demonstrate the limits and weaknesses of the human capacity to acquire knowledge without being guided by revelation. He achieved this goal by offering an overview of the various and contradictory gnosiological opinions disseminated since ancient times: the divergence of views, to which he addressed the most attention, prevented him from giving a fixed definition of the nature of the cognitive process. This obliged him to come to the audacious conclusion of neither affirming nor denying anything concerning human knowledge, and finally of suspending his judgement altogether. This work unfortunately had little success in Luzzatto’s lifetime, and was subsequently almost forgotten. The absence of substantial evidence from his contemporaries and that of his epistolary have thus increased the difficulty of tracing not only its legacy in the history of philosophical though, but also of understanding the circumstances surrounding the writing of his Socrates. The present edition will be a preliminary study aiming to shed some light on the philosophical and historical value of this work’s translation, indeed it will provide a broader readership with the opportunity to access this immensely complicated work and also to grasp some aspects of the composite intellectual framework and admirable modernity of Venetian Jewish culture in the ghetto.

Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man; A Study in Christian Integration

2023-11-21 Fiction
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Release : 2023-11-21
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Book Synopsis Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man; A Study in Christian Integration by : Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

Download or read book Hilaire Belloc: No Alienated Man; A Study in Christian Integration written by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen. This book was released on 2023-11-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of this book describes it as not a biography, nor a work of literary criticism. He says it is an attempt to get at the 'essence' of the larger than life figure, Hilaire Belloc. Hilaire Belloc was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works.

Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019

2020-05-05 Religion
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Book Synopsis Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019 by : Yoav Meyrav

Download or read book Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies. 2019 written by Yoav Meyrav. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies mirrors the annual activities of staff and visiting fellows of the Centre as well as scholars of the Institute for Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and reports on symposia, workshops, and lectures. Although aimed at a wider audience, the yearbook also contains academic articles and book reviews on scepticism in Judaism and scepticism in general. The Yearbook 2016 was published as volume 1 in the series Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion. From 2017 onwards, the Yearbook is published as a separate series. Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Studies and Texts in Scepticism and Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion.

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