Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy / / T.M. Rudavsky
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| Autore: |
Rudavsky Tamar <1951->
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| Titolo: |
Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy / / T.M. Rudavsky
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, N.Y., : State University of New York Press, c2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (308 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 113/.089/924 |
| Soggetto topico: | Creation - History of doctrines |
| Jewish cosmology | |
| Jewish philosophy | |
| Philosophy, Medieval | |
| Time | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | ""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"" | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in medieval Jewish philosophy. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Time matters |
| ISBN: | 9780791493250 |
| 0791493253 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910964211403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy