ISBN:
9783110569599
,
9783110568820
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 262 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion 3
Series Statement:
Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Haliva, Racheli Isaac Polqar
Keywords:
God (Judaism)
;
Jewish philosophy To 1500
;
Philosophy and religion To 1500
;
Philosophy, Medieval
;
RELIGION / Judaism / History
;
Polgar, Isaak Ibn-
;
Jüdische Philosophie
Abstract:
To date, scholars have skilfully discussed aspects of Polqar’s thought, and yet none of the existing studies offers a comprehensive examination that covers Polqar’s thought in its entirety. This book aims to fill this lacuna by tracing and contextualizing both Polqar’s Islamic sources (al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes) and his Jewish sources (Maimonides and Isaac Albalag). The study brings to light three of Polqar’s main purposes; (1) seeking to defend Judaism as a true religion against Christianity; (2) similarly to his fellow Jewish Averroists, Polqar wishes to defend the discipline of philosophy. By philosophy, Polqar means Averroes' interpretation of Aristotle. As a consequence, he offers an Averroistic interpretation of Judaism and becomes one of the main representatives of Jewish Averroism; (3) defending his philosophical interpretation of Judaism. From a social and political point of view, Polqar's unreserved embrace of philosophy raised problems within the Jewish community; he had to refute the Jewish traditionalists’ charge that he was a heretic, led astray by philosophy. The main objective guiding this study is that Polqar advances a systematic naturalistic interpretation of Judaism, which in many cases does not agree with traditional Jewish views. -- De Gruyter website (accessed 6.4.2020)
DOI:
10.1515/9783110569599
URL:
http://www.degruyter.com/search?f_0=isbnissn&q_0=9783110568752&searchTitles=true
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