Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy /
Rudavsky, Tamar, 1951-
Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky - Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000 - xviii, 287 pages ; 24 cm - SUNY series in Jewish philosophy . - SUNY series in Jewish philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index
Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem -- 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 -- Time, Creation, and Cosmology -- Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed -- Creation Models in Maimonides -- Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides -- Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas -- The Subjectivity of Time according to Albo -- Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation -- Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno -- 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 -- Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience -- The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox -- Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom -- Compatibilism in Jewish Kalam: Saadia Gaon and Halevi -- Maimonides' Compatibilism -- Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud -- Omniscience and Human Freedom in Gersonides -- Indeterminism and Prophecy -- The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on Divine Knowledge and Possibility -- Prelude to Modernity -- Newton and His Philosophical Precursors -- Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism
"Despite the importance of time and cosmology to Western thought, surprisingly little attention has been paid to these issues in histories of Jewish philosophy. Focusing on how medieval philosophers constructed a philosophical theology that was sensitive to religious constraints and yet also incorporated compelling elements of science and philosophy, T.M. Rudavsky traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in the writings of Ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Gersonides, Crescas, Spinoza, and others."--Jacket
0791444538 9780791444535 0791444546 9780791444542
99088797
GBA215402 bnb
Jewish philosophy
Philosophy, Medieval
Time
Creation--History of doctrines
Jewish cosmology
Time
B755 / .R83 2000
ARCH YNDC 113.08 R913T
Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky - Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000 - xviii, 287 pages ; 24 cm - SUNY series in Jewish philosophy . - SUNY series in Jewish philosophy .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index
Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem -- 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 -- Time, Creation, and Cosmology -- Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed -- Creation Models in Maimonides -- Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides -- Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas -- The Subjectivity of Time according to Albo -- Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation -- Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno -- 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 -- Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience -- The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox -- Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom -- Compatibilism in Jewish Kalam: Saadia Gaon and Halevi -- Maimonides' Compatibilism -- Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud -- Omniscience and Human Freedom in Gersonides -- Indeterminism and Prophecy -- The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on Divine Knowledge and Possibility -- Prelude to Modernity -- Newton and His Philosophical Precursors -- Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism
"Despite the importance of time and cosmology to Western thought, surprisingly little attention has been paid to these issues in histories of Jewish philosophy. Focusing on how medieval philosophers constructed a philosophical theology that was sensitive to religious constraints and yet also incorporated compelling elements of science and philosophy, T.M. Rudavsky traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in the writings of Ibn Gabirol, Maimonides, Gersonides, Crescas, Spinoza, and others."--Jacket
0791444538 9780791444535 0791444546 9780791444542
99088797
GBA215402 bnb
Jewish philosophy
Philosophy, Medieval
Time
Creation--History of doctrines
Jewish cosmology
Time
B755 / .R83 2000
ARCH YNDC 113.08 R913T