Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy /
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany, N.Y. :
State University of New York Press,
©2000.
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Colección: | SUNY series in Jewish philosophy.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Matter
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustration
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem
- Introduction
- Biblical Conceptions of Time
- Rabbinical Models of Time and Creation
- Time, Order, and Creation in the Greek Philosophical Tradition
- Ancient Greek Astronomy and Cosmology
- Plotinus and the Neoplatonist Tradition
- Conclusion
- Time, Creation, and Cosmology
- Introduction
- Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed
- Creation Models in Maimonides.
- Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides
- Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas
- Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation
- Conclusion
- Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno
- Introduction
- Traversing the Infinite: Zeno, Aristotle, and John Philoponus
- Jewish Neoplatonic Considerations of Infinite Divisibility
- Meeting the Kalam Challenge: Kalam Atomism Described
- Rejection of Kalam Atomism: Saadia Gaon, Halevi, Ibn Daud, and Maimonides
- Gersonides on the Continuum
- Crescas on Infinity, Space, and the Vacuum
- Conclusion.
- Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience
- Introduction
- The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox
- Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom
- Maimonides' Compatibilism
- Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud
- Omni science and Human Freedom in Gersonides
- Indeterminism and Prophecy
- The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on T)ivine Knowledge and Possibility
- Conclusion
- Prelude to Modernity
- Introduction
- Newton and His Philosophical Precursors
- Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism
- Time, Duration, and Creation: Spinoza and Descartes Compared.
- Substance, Infinity, and Divisibility in Spinoza
- The Role Played by Imagination
- Spinoza on Divine Omniscience and Contingency
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- Conclusion: Eternity a parte post, Individuation, and Immortality
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Back Cover.