Jewish and Islamic Philosophy : Crosspollinations in the Classic Age /
"The object of Goodman's discussion is not to find the "sources" of religious ideas (as if to credit the philosophical originality of one tradition or cast aspersions on the philosophical dependency of another), but rather to explicate, connect, and demonstrate the commonalities...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
1999.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Crosspollinations
- Hearing God's voice in words
- "He who knows himself knows his Lord"
- God's act in history
- Razi and Epicurus
- Perception and sensation
- Pleasure and pain
- Desire, motivation, and free will
- Razi's Ethics and the ethical transparency of hedonism
- Bahya and Kant
- The antinomy
- Bahya's response
- The philosophical impact of Bahya's approach
- Maimonides and the Philosophers of Islam
- Creation
- Theophany
- Friendship
- Friendship as reciprocated virtue
- Biblical, Rabbinic, Maimonidean and Qur'anic fellowship
- Miskawayh on friendship
- Friendship in al-Ghazali
- Determinism and freedom in Spinoza, Maimonides and Aristotle
- Aristotle's determinism
- Maimonides' determinism
- Spinoza's determinism
- Spinoza's defence of human freedom
- Maimonides on character and freedom
- Freedom and akrasia
- Ibn Khaldun and Thucydides
- A science of history and civilisation
- Governance in history.