Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rudavsky, Tamar, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Colección:SUNY series in Jewish philosophy.
Temas:
Jewish cosmology.
Creation > History of doctrines.
Time.
Philosophy, Medieval.
Jewish philosophy.
Cosmologie juive.
Création > Histoire des doctrines.
Temps.
Philosophie médiévale.
Philosophie juive.
time.
SCIENCE > Cosmology.
Creation > History of doctrines
Jewish cosmology
Jewish philosophy
Philosophy, Medieval
Time
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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.

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