39 Facts About Jewish philosophy

Jewish philosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism.

Until modern Haskalah and Jewish emancipation, Jewish philosophy was preoccupied with attempts to reconcile coherent new ideas into the tradition of Rabbinic Judaism, thus organizing emergent ideas that are not necessarily Jewish into a uniquely Jewish scholastic framework and world-view.

These developments could be seen as either continuations of or breaks from the canon of rabbinic philosophy of the Middle Ages, as well as the other historical dialectic aspects of Jewish thought, and resulted in diverse contemporary Jewish attitudes to philosophical methods.

Some have suggested that Abraham introduced a Jewish philosophy learned from Melchizedek; further, some Jews ascribe the Sefer Yetzirah "Book of Creation" to Abraham.

These truths he regarded as fixed and determinate, and Jewish philosophy was used as an aid to truth, and a means of arriving at it.

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Jewish philosophy scholars influenced Islamic scholars and Islamic scholars influenced Jewish philosophy scholars.

Contemporary scholars continue to debate who was Muslim and who was Jew—some "Islamic scholars" were "Jewish philosophy scholars" prior to forced conversion to Islam, some Jewish philosophy scholars willingly converted to Islam, such as Abdullah ibn Salam, while others later reverted to Judaism, and still others, born and raised as Jews, were ambiguous in their religious beliefs such as ibn al-Rawandi, although they lived according to the customs of their neighbors.

Greek philosophy, science, medicine and mathematics was absorbed by Jewish scholars living in the Arab world due to Arabic translations of those texts; remnants of the Library of Alexandria.

Jewish philosophy emphasized that the Egyptian magicians were able to reproduce several of Moses' "miracles, " proving that they could not have been so unique.

Jewish philosophy was a proselyte of Rabbinic Judaism; al-Mukkamas was a student of physician, and renowned Christian philosopher, Hana.

Jewish philosophy aided this scientific movement by original works, translations and as interpreter for another translator, Plato Tiburtinus.

Jewish philosophy'storians differ over the motive for his conversion to Islam.

Jewish philosophy was a follower of Avicenna's teaching, who proposed an explanation of the acceleration of falling bodies by the accumulation of successive increments of power with successive increments of velocity.

Jewish philosophy's writings include Kitab al-Mu?tabar; a philosophical commentary on the Kohelet, written in Arabic using Hebrew aleph bet; and the treatise "On the Reason Why the Stars Are Visible at Night and Hidden in Daytime.

Some Jews accepted this model of religious pluralism, leading them to view Muhammad as a legitimate prophet, though not Jewish philosophy, sent to preach to the Arabs, just as the Hebrew prophets had been sent to deliver their messages to Israel; others refused this notion in entirety.

Jewish philosophy was a student of Moses ibn Ezra whose education came from Isaac ibn Ghiyyat; trained as a Rationalist, he shed it in favor of Neoplatonism.

Jewish philosophy was a student of his father, Rabbi Maimon ben Yosef in Cordoba, Spain.

Jewish philosophy was the son-in-law of Samuel ibn Tibbon, translator of Maimonides.

Thirdly, Hillel was the first devotee of Jewish learning and Philosophy in Italy, bringing a close to a period of relative ignorance of Hakira in Verona.

Jewish philosophy'sm-Tov ibn Falaquera was a Spanish-born philosopher who pursued reconciliation between Jewish dogma and philosophy.

Jewish philosophy knew the works of the Islamic philosophers better than any Jewish scholar of his time, and made many of them available to other Jewish scholars – often without attribution.

Jewish philosophy defines his aim as "not to be a fool who believes in everything, but only in that which can be verified by proof.

Jewish philosophy believed that the Torah had both a simple, direct meaning accessible to the average reader as well as a deeper, metaphysical meaning accessible to thinkers.

Jewish philosophy was an adversary of Kabbalah who never spoke of the Sefirot; he quotes another philosopher when reproaching kabbalists with "believing in the "Ten" as the Christians believe in the Trinity".

Jewish philosophy was a student of philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and especially of medicine, which he practiced for a number of years at Palma, in Majorca.

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Jewish philosophy wrote Sefer ha-Ikkarim, a classic work on the fundamentals of Judaism.

Jewish philosophy's neoplatonism is derived from the Jewish philosophy'spanic Jewish community, especially the works of Ibn Gabirol.

Divergent Jewish philosophy philosophies evolved against the backdrop of new cultures, new languages and renewed theological exchange.

Philosophic exploration continued through the Renaissance period as the center-of-mass of Jewish philosophy Scholarship shifted to France, Germany, Italy, and Turkey.

Jewish philosophy was the father and teacher of a long line of rationalist philosophers and scholars.

Jewish philosophy was a student of Levi Ibn Habib, who was in turn a student of Jacob ibn Habib, who was, in turn, a student of Nissim ben Reuben.

Jewish philosophy has been referred to as the father of Reform Judaism, although Reform spokesmen have been "resistant to claim him as their spiritual father".

One of the major trends in modern Jewish philosophy was the attempt to develop a theory of Judaism through existentialism.

Jewish philosophy's theology was a variant of John Dewey's pragmatist philosophy.

Process Jewish philosophy suggests that fundamental elements of the universe are occasions of experience.

Process Jewish philosophy gives God a special place in the universe of occasions of experience.

God encompasses all the other occasions of experience but transcends them; thus process Jewish philosophy is a form of panentheism.

Meanwhile, non-Orthodox Jewish philosophy thought in the latter 20th century saw resurgent interest in Kabbalah.

Many philosophers do not consider this a form of Jewish philosophy, as Kabbalah is a collection of esoteric methods of textual interpretation.