Language:
English
Year of publication:
2021
Titel der Quelle:
Review of Rabbinic Judaism - Ancient, Medieval, and Modern
Angaben zur Quelle:
24,2 (2021) 265–275
Keywords:
Halbertal, Moshe
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Halbertal, Moshe.
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Uncertainty (Jewish law)
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Uncertainty Religious aspects
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Judaism
Abstract:
Contending with doubt is essential to human life. How people handle this condition, though, varies significantly. Some choose to (i) repress doubt’s very existence by denying the dynamic and plural character of this world and a recourse to a detached, Platonist realm of ideas. Others (ii) give up certainty altogether, in a radical skepticist fashion, converting their doubts into dogmatic certainty. The case of Descartes’s hyperbolic doubt demonstrates how strategies (i) and (ii) can be mutually supportive. A third group, typically pragmatist, travels the uneasy road of trying to live with doubt productively.
DOI:
10.1163/15700704-12341386
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