Jewish Socratic Questions in an Age Without Plato : : Permitting and Forbidding Open Inquiry in 12-15th Century Europe and North Africa.
"Yehuda Halper examines Jewish depictions of Socrates and Socratic questioning of the divine among European and North African Jews of the 12th-15th centuries. Without direct access to Plato, their understanding of Socrates is indirect, based on legendary material, on fragmentary quotations from...
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| Superior document: | Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Series ; v.1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2021. ©2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (276 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Was Socrates a wise, ascetic monotheist or a vocal sceptic?
- Socrates and Socratic philosophy in Judah Halevi's Kuzari
- Socratic scepticisim and the problem of Akrasia according to Averroes
- Does Maimonides's Mishneh Torah forbid reading the Guide of the Perplexed ? On Platonic punishments for freethinkers
- Keep your sons from logic
- The sex life of metaphysical sceptic : Platonic themes in Gersonides's commentary on the Song of Songs
- Philosophical allegory in Bibago : exegetical duplicity for the sake of open inquiry.