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	Jewish philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Early Jewish philosophy was heavily influenced by the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Islamic philosophy.
		Many early medieval Jewish philosophers (from the 8th century to end of the 9th century) were especially influenced by the Islamic Mutazilite philosophers; they denied all limiting attributes of God and were champions of God's unity and justice.
		Philo of Alexandria (20 BCE - 40 CE) was a Hellenized Jewish philosopher born in Alexandria, Egypt.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_philosophy (3285 words)

	Jewish philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
		One is a tendency to historicism, that is, the equivocal equation of norm with facticity and facticity with norm that leads to an abdication of philosophical engagement for a detached clinical posture or an equally unwholesome surrender of judgment to the flow of events.
		Jewish philosophy has over the course of its history been the source of a number of different types of study based on the philosophically relevant ideas of the Hebrew Bible, Rabbinic Law (Halakhah), Rabbinic theology and Rabbinic homiletics, exegesis and hermeneutics (midrash) (see Bible, Hebrew; Halakhah; Theology, Rabbinic; Midrash).
		A number of twentieth century philosophers of Judaism have grasped at diverse threads of the Jewish experience, illustrating both the attractions of the tradition and the fragmentation produced by centuries of persecution that would culminate in the Holocaust, only to be accentuated by the centrifugal tendencies of Jewish life in post-Holocaust liberal societies.
	www.rep.routledge.com /article/J066#J066P3.1 (3145 words)

	MOSES MENDELSSOHN - LoveToKnow Article on MOSES MENDELSSOHN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		(I 729I 786), Jewish philosopher, was born in Dessau in 1729.
		He was the foremost Jewish figure of the 18th century, and to him is attributable the renaissance of the House of Israel.
		In the first part of the i9th century, the criticism of Jewish dogmas and traditions was associated with a firm adhesion to the older Jewish mode of living.
	89.1911encyclopedia.org /M/ME/MENDELSSOHN_MOSES.htm (1788 words)

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		It was a rather generous fellowship, and all it required was a commitment to attend biweekly gatherings at the home of a distinguished Jewish philosopher, a professor at the Hebrew University.
		The philosopher looked at us as if we were monsters, as if we had not merely asked about but insisted on a point so horrific that, if he could, he would physically eject us from his home, so that we could not further infect all that rested within it.
		Jewish communities are, of course, inhabited by individuals whose task it is to teach Judaism to the next generation and thereby help secure group continuity and survival.
	www.shma.com /Dec02/hart.htm (843 words)

	Gersonides
		Gersonides is the philosopher who attempted to show that philosophy and Torah, that reason and revelation are co-extensive; he is a philosophical optimist who believes that reason was fully competent to attain all the important and essential truths.
		Jewish philosophers did not have direct access to the works of Aristotle, but Provençal Jews learned of Aristotle through the commentaries of Averroes, the twelfth-century Spanish Muslim philosopher.
		Jewish philosophers such as Hasdai Crescas and Isaac Abrabanel felt obliged to subject his works to lengthy criticism.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/gersonides (6293 words)

	List of Austrian Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Austria first became a center of Jewish learning during the 13th century.
		However, increasing anti-semitism led to the expulsion of the Jews in 1669.
		Following the Anschluss with Nazi Germany, most of the community emigrated or were killed in the Holocaust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Austrian_Jews (268 words)

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		Jewish philosophy arose and flourished as Jews participated in the philosophic speculations of the external culture.
		Significant religious and philosophical differences distinguish ancient and medieval from much of modern Jewish thought; nevertheless, the subject matter of Jewish philosophy may be divided into three parts.
		Jewish Hellenistic culture may be said to have begun with the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Bible.
	www.yesselman.com /JewPhil.htm (8932 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem", Dr. Hannah Arendt, who is neither left-wing nor pro-Palestinian, and who supports the existence of Israel as a Jewish state, touched on some of the questions involved, although she did not really hit the sore spots and did not directly accuse the Zionist movement of collaboration with Nazism.
		To a Jew this role of the Jewish leaders in the destruction of their own people is undoubtedly the darkest chapter of the whole dark story.
		The whole truth was that if the Jewish people had really been unorganized and leaderless, there would have been chaos and plenty of misery but the total number of victims would hardly have been between four and half and six million people".
	www.aldeilis.net /zion/zionhol02.html (1922 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Benny Levy, 58, Jewish philosopher
		JERUSALEM -- Benny Levy, a secretary to French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and a former militant socialist who later embraced a life of piety and study of Judaism, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Jerusalem.
		Levy was born in Cairo on Aug. 28, 1945, into a Jewish family and later moved to France, where he studied at the elite Ecole Normale Superieure.
		Levy's institute and said the philosopher's path from radical to religious scholar showed that he was someone who sought answers.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/10/19/benny_levy_58_jewish_philosopher (433 words)

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		This kind of philosophical timeliness is not necessarily indicated in a flourishing of scholarship on Cohen or even in an explicit agreement with one or another of his statements.
		philosophical, interest, he nevertheless approached the sources as historical sources, i.e., as sources which first needed to be reconsidered in the light of critical historical scholarship.
		Novak argues for greater truthfulness to the whole of Jewish religious literature than Cohen was willing or able to muster, yet ultimately the difference rests not on lesser or greater truthfulness in their respective reading of the sources but rather on the difference betweeen their respective philosophical questions.
	www.bu.edu /mzank/Michael_Zank/mjth.html (7043 words)

	The Jewish diaspora: Rome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Jewish community in the Roman Diaspora dates back to the second century BCE and was comparatively large.
		One of the key texts is written by the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, who visited Rome as a member of an embassy to the emperor Caligula (40 CE).
		This branch of the Jewish religion originated in the last quarter of the first century CE, when the ancient center of Judaism, the temple at Jerusalem, was destroyed (more).
	www.livius.org /di-dn/diaspora/rome.html (2103 words)

	Jewish Political Studies Review Abstracts - Volume 9, Numbers 3 & 4 (Fall 5758/1997)
		Kenneth Hart Green's Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss offers an able defense against current presumptions that the Jewish element of Strauss's thought is either unfriendly to Orthodoxy, untimely, or marginal for an understanding of Strauss's thought as a whole.
		Jew and Philosopher: The Return to Maimonides in the Jewish Thought of Leo Strauss is the first book to deal with Leo Strauss both as a Jewish thinker, and as rediscoverer of Maimonides.
		In response to Wyschogrod, Green defends the tradition of Jewish philosophy descended from Maimonides as an authentic Jewish tradition, rooted in adherence to the deeper meaning of Judaism, and to an awareness of the original meaning of philosophy.
	www.jcpa.org /jpabfl97.htm (920 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		His spacious Nanjing apartment could easily be mistaken for a North American Jewish home, replete with a mezuzah, books on Judaism and Judaica artifacts, and photos of him with luminaries such as former Israeli prime ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, and Nobel Prize-winner, author Elie Wiesel.
		The growth of Jewish studies in China enhances those ties, as some of the younger Chinese scholars have begun to do a year of Jewish studies at Israeli universities, notably Tel Aviv.
		During the conference, a concert of Jewish music was organized at the University of Nanjing.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=4727 (923 words)

	Search Results for Maimonides - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician, the foremost intellectual figure of medieval Judaism.
		Spanish-born Jewish philosopher and translator who propagated a reconciliation between Jewish Orthodoxy and philosophy and defended Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed against the attacks of the...
		Jewish translator and physician whose most significant achievement was an accurate and faithful rendition from the Arabic into Hebrew of Maimonides' classic Dalahai (Hebrew More nevukhim; English The...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Maimonides&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (410 words)

	C. Israel Lutsky, the Jewish Philosopher: The Jewish Philosopher
		Israel Lutsky, the Jewish Philosopher: The Jewish Philosopher
		The Jewish Philosopher, the documentary about the first advice-giver of the air.
		In short, the Jewish Philosopher was a snake-oil salesman, and as such knew it wasn't enough to gather a crowd.
	www.yiddishradioproject.org /exhibits/lutsky (377 words)

	SBL November 2004, San Antonio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Philosophical thinking is not free from pre-philosophical presuppositions and Levinas did not perceive his philosophical approach as a means in and for itself but as related to life and experience prior to and beyond philosophical reflection.
		As Jewish traditions first of all are scriptural traditions the necessity of interpretation is a given.
		Jewish identity is thus an obstacle to being in Christ and has to be given up.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /AnS/religious_studies/SBL2004/kathy.htm (8050 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Jewish philosopher Emil Fackenheim dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		JERUSALEM -- Rabbi Emil Fackenheim, a leading Jewish philosopher who explored the essence of Judaism in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has died, a friend said.
		"He was always saying that continuing Jewish life and denying Hitler a posthumous victory was the 614th law," Amir said, referring to the 613 laws given to the Jews in the Bible.
		Fackenheim was the author of numerous books on Jewish philosophy and the Holocaust, most notably "God's presence in History" and "To Mend the World, " considered a seminal work in post-Holocaust Jewish philosophy.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2003/09/21/jewish_philosopher_emil_fackenheim_dies (272 words)

	Tel-Aviv University: Department of Jewish Philosophy
		Thus for example, Philo, the first Jewish philosopher from the 1st century, is studied together with Greek philosophy.
		The courses cover Jewish philosophical and theological thought with special emphasis on the confrontation between philosophy and religion in the Middle Ages.
		Special courses are dedicated to the most important works of Jewish Medieval Philosophy such as: Saadiah's The Book of Beliefs and Opinions, Halevi's Kuzari, Maimonides' The Guide of the Perplexed, Gersonides' The Wars of the Lord and Crescas' The Light of the Lord.
	www.tau.ac.il /humanities/jewishphilosophy (395 words)

	Open Directory - Society:Philosophy:Philosophers:S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Austrian philosopher of science, founder of the Vienna Circle of logical positivist thought.
		American philosopher of mind and language, best known for his argument that computers are incapabable of true intelligence.
		British analytical philosopher and metaphysician, an advocate of "ordinary language" philosophy.
	www.dmoz.org /Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/S/desc.html (915 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Jewish Life
		Jewish Community of Barcelona: The Book of Document Forms, 13th century, trans.
		Jewish Views of Royal Monetary Policy in Aragon, 13th Century, trans.
		Ordinance of the Jews of the Crown of Aragon, 1354 CE This ordinance or takkanah was the product of an increased sense of Jewish vulnerability in the years after the Black Death (1348).
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook1t.html (1317 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was a history of Jewish tradition, oriented primarily against Karaite teaching.
		Ibn Daud was the first Jewish philosopher to introduce a strict form of Aristotelianism.
		Ibn Daud was one of the most rationalistic of Jewish philosophers.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=286 (984 words)

	Maimonides - Saint and Heretic
		This is because the word "and" signifies that the great Jewish philosopher Maimonides (who died at the beginning of the thirteenth century) was both a saint AND a heretic.
		His philosophical beliefs and what he taught clandestinely were the very opposite of what Moses and the Prophets believed.
		In real practical and philosophical belief, Maimonides by his own admission and practice was a thorough-going Hellenist who insisted that the Jewish nation give up the simple and plain teachings of Moses on several important Old Testament doctrines and to adopt in their place the "Greek philosophical way" (notably the concepts of Aristotle).
	www.askelm.com /doctrine/d010301.htm (4759 words)

	Jewish Internet Dating Services Review
		Judah Halevi 1086-1145 (poet and philosopher) was born at Toledo.
		Abraham ibn (ben) Daud 1110-1180 is the first Jewish philosopher who shows an intimate knowledge of the works of Aristotle and makes a deliberate effort to harmonize the Aristotelian system with Judaism.
		He was the most comprehensive mind (scholar, philosopher and physician) of mediaeval Jewry, and his philosophy was the copingstone of a complete system of Judaism.
	www.geocities.com /jewishcards/Directory/Jewish_philosophers.html (379 words)

	Maimonides & Medieval Jewish Philosophy Audio Book
		The first significant Jewish philosopher is recognized as Philo (ca 13 BC - 45/50 AD), who lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
		Sa'adia wrote that complete or reliable knowledge of the divine is not available to humans, so we must rely on speculative inquiry about the highest and most valuable aspects of knowledge.
		Moses ben Maimon (1138-1204), popularly known as Maimonides, was a physician, jurist, philosopher and spiritual authority for exiled Jewish communities.
	www.audioclassics.net /html/phil2_files/maimon.cfm (347 words)

	SARTRE . ORG : French Jewish Author Benny Levy Dies
		JERUSALEM -- Benny Levy, a secretary to the famed French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and a former militant socialist who later embraced a life of piety and study of Judaism, has died in Jerusalem at the age of 58.
		Levy was born in Cairo, Egypt, on Aug. 28, 1945, into a Jewish family and later moved to France, where he studied at the elite Ecole Normale Superieure.
		In 2000, together with French philosophers Bernard-Henri Levy and Alain Finkielkraut, Levy opened an institute in Jerusalem dedicated to the study of the work of his teacher, French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas.
	www.sartre.org /Articles/FrenchJewishAuthorBennyLevyDies.htm (449 words)

	JewishGates.Com - The Definitive Source for Talmudic Learning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		He was a brilliant doctor and Jewish legalist and the greatest Jewish scholar and philosopher of the Middle Ages.
		He had a more powerful impact on Jewish tradition than any other man. RaMBaM was the quintessential rationalist, and he used his sharp, logical mind to systematize different aspects of Jewish life.
		With pressure from the Karaites and Muslim sects, RaMBaM felt that it was necessary to delineate the fundamental Jewish beliefs.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=344 (934 words)

	Joseph Soloveitchik
		Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov) Soloveitchik was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher.
		Soon after marriage to Tonya, he moved to Berlin in Germany where he remained for almost a decade studying at the University of Berlin obtaining a Ph.D. based on the philosophy of the great German philosopher Herman Cohen, and simultaneously maintaining a rigorous schedule of intensive Talmud study.
		He authored a book on Jewish thought called "The Lonely Man of Faith" that has somehow been associated with his own stance on issues, the willingness to stand alone in the face of monumental challenges.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Soloveitchik.html (1222 words)

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