04131nam 2200673Ia 450 991046212350332120200520144314.00-7914-9325-3(CKB)2670000000233703(EBL)3408076(SSID)ssj0000607776(PQKBManifestationID)11382169(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000607776(PQKBWorkID)10585235(PQKB)10326689(MiAaPQ)EBC3408076(OCoLC)794701361(MdBmJHUP)muse14093(Au-PeEL)EBL3408076(CaPaEBR)ebr10587275(EXLCZ)99267000000023370319991206d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTime matters[electronic resource] time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy /T.M. RudavskyAlbany, N.Y. State University of New York Pressc20001 online resource (308 p.)SUNY series in Jewish philosophyDescription based upon print version of record.0-7914-4453-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index.""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Illustration""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem""; ""Introduction""; ""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""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Creation, and Cosmology""; ""Introduction""; ""Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed""""Creation Models in Maimonides""""Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides""; ""Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas""; ""Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno""; ""Introduction""; ""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""""Conclusion""; ""Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience""; ""Introduction""; ""The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox""; ""Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom""; ""Maimonides' Compatibilism""; ""Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud""; ""Omni science and Human Freedom in Gersonides""; ""Indeterminism and Prophecy""; ""The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on T)ivine Knowledge and Possibility""; ""Conclusion""; ""Prelude to Modernity""; ""Introduction""; ""Newton and His Philosophical Precursors""""Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism""""Time, Duration, and Creation: Spinoza and Descartes Compared""; ""Substance, Infinity, and Divisibility in Spinoza""; ""The Role Played by Imagination""; ""Spinoza on Divine Omniscience and Contingency""; ""Conclusion""; ""Back Matter""; ""Conclusion: Eternity a parte post, Individuation, and Immortality""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""Back Cover""SUNY Series in Jewish PhilosophyCreationHistory of doctrinesJewish cosmologyJewish philosophyPhilosophy, MedievalTimeElectronic books.CreationHistory of doctrines.Jewish cosmology.Jewish philosophy.Philosophy, Medieval.Time.113/.089/924Rudavsky Tamar1951-905174MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462123503321Time matters2442322UNINA