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Title Neoplatonism and Jewish thought / edited by Lenn E. Goodman
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 454 pages)
Series Studies in Neoplatonism : Ancient and Modern ; v. 7
Studies in Neoplatonism : Ancient and Modern
Contents Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE -- EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION : Thematizing a Tradition -- Content -- Philo's Conception of the Divine Nature -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol's Doctrine of Intelligible Matter -- Parallel Structures in the Metaphysics of Iamblichus and Ibn Gabiror -- Ibn Gabirol: The Sage Among the Schoolmen -- From What is One and Simple only What is One and Simple Can Come to Be· -- Maimonides and Neoplatonism: Challenge and Response -- Maimonidean Naturalism
The Virtue of FaithWhy not Pursue the Metaphor of Artisan and View God's Knowledge as Practical? -- Matter as Creature and Matter as the Source of Evil: Maimonides and Aquinas -- Divine Unity in Maimonides, the Tosafists and Me'iri -- Platonic Themes in Gersonides' Doctrine of the Active Intellect -- Utterance and Ineffability in Jewish Neoplatonism -- Self-Contraction of the Godhead in Kabbalistic Theology· -- Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance -- Love and Intellect in Leone Ebreo: The Joys and Pains of Human Passion
Spinoza, Neopiatonic Kabbalist?The Psychodynamics of Neoplatonic Ontology -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- The Contributors -- INDEX
Analysis "Multi-User"
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-434) and index
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Subject Philosophy, Comparative -- Congresses
Judaism and philosophy -- Congresses
Jewish philosophy -- Congresses
Neoplatonism -- Congresses
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Jewish philosophy
Judaism and philosophy
Neoplatonism
Philosophy, Comparative
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Goodman, Lenn Evan, 1944-
ISBN 9781438404400
1438404409
9780791413401
0791413403