| Title | Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2020 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Volume | 62 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Law, Science, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Ofer Elior , Gad Freudenthal , David Wirmer |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Gersonides’ Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288–1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides’ impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism. |
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| Title | Irrtum - Error - Erreur |
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| Date | 2018 |
| Publication Place | Berlin; Boston |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Series | Miscellanea Mediaevalia |
| Volume | 40 |
| Categories | Science, Medicine, Psychology, Politics, Law |
| Author(s) | Andreas Speer , Maxime Mauriège |
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| Translator(s) |
| The volume is a comprehensive evaluation of epistemic, practical, veridical issues from the perspective of every kind of failure, disruption, or confusion that comes under the general rubric of “error.” The analysis is not limited to the element of negativity, but rather, an inquiry about the extent that error can be transformed into a starting point or precondition for successful epistemic practices. |
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| Title | Averroes (Ibn Rushd) |
| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2009 |
| Published in | The History of Western Philosophy of Religion |
| Pages | 121–136 |
| Categories | Biography, Law, Science |
| Author(s) | Gerhard Endress |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Abū-l-Walīd Muḥammad ibn-Muḥammad ibn-Rushd, known in the Latin West under the Hispanicized name ‘Averroes’, was, like his ancestors, a jurist in Islamic Andalusia. He became Chief Judge of Cordoba and Seville, court physician to the Almohad princes of Morocco and Spain, counsellor and courtier in the orbit of power. He belonged to the three worlds of intellectual culture in his age: he was brought up in the world of the ʿulamā, learned exegetes and administrators of the Sharīʿa (the revealed law of Islam); he mastered the world of the rational sciences – applied in medicine and astronomy, and crowned by the universal wisdom of philosophy that was taken to lead the way to true wisdom and ultimate happiness; and he rose to high station in the world of court, where the Commander of the Faithful ruled as absolute king. He embodied the sum of intellectual excellence and active experience a person could gain in his time and place. The religious community, and the political conditions, of Muslim Spain underwent deep changes in Averroes' lifetime. His project – to give a rational foundation to the Muslim doctrine and in the long run to vindicate the work of philosophy as a rule of reason governing all of society – with its progress and its setbacks, was closely connected with the social condition, the spiritual outlook and the dialectic of power and authority in the Andalust. |
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| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | undefined |
| Date | 2018 |
| Publication Place | Berlin; Boston |
| Publisher | De Gruyter |
| Series | Miscellanea Mediaevalia |
| Volume | 40 |
| Categories | Science, Medicine, Psychology, Politics, Law |
| Author(s) | Andreas Speer , Maxime Mauriège |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Type | Book Section |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2009 |
| Published in | The History of Western Philosophy of Religion |
| Pages | 121–136 |
| Categories | Biography, Law, Science |
| Author(s) | Gerhard Endress |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
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| Title | Gersonides’ Afterlife: Studies on the Reception of Levi ben Gerson’s Philosophical, Halakhic and Scientific Oeuvre in the 14th through 20th Centuries |
| Type | Edited Book |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2020 |
| Publication Place | Leiden, Boston |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Series | Studies in Jewish History and Culture |
| Volume | 62 |
| Categories | Gersonides, Law, Science, Tradition and Reception |
| Author(s) | Ofer Elior , Gad Freudenthal , David Wirmer |
| Publisher(s) | |
| Translator(s) |
| Gersonides’ Afterlife is the first full-scale treatment of the reception of one of the greatest scientific minds of medieval Judaism: Gersonides (1288–1344). An outstanding representative of the Hebrew Jewish culture that then flourished in southern France, Gersonides wrote on mathematics, logic, astronomy, astrology, physical science, metaphysics and theology, and commented on almost the entire bible. His strong-minded attempt to integrate these different areas of study into a unitary system of thought was deeply rooted in the Aristotelian tradition and yet innovative in many respects, and thus elicited diverse and often impassionate reactions. For the first time, the twenty-one papers collected here describe Gersonides’ impact in all fields of his activity and the reactions from his contemporaries up to present-day religious Zionism. |
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