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1 online resource (x, 246 pages) |
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Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; t. 58 |
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Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 58. 0169-815X
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Saadya's Life and the Cultural Milieu; The Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʻtiqādāt (Book of Beliefs and Convictions): Structure, Content and Method; The Sẹfer Yezịrah; Saadya's Commentary on the Sẹfer Yezịrah; The Literature on Saadya's Epistemology; Chapter One Two Paths to Knowledge; I. Process and Insight; The Process of the Elimination of Doubts in Ten Steps; The Six Observations; The Process of Cognition in the TSY; KAI: An Epistemological Dualism; TSY: An Epistemology Based on Simplicity; II. The Sources of Knowledge |
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Abraham's Supposed Authorship of the Sẹfer YezịrahProphecy and Philosophy; What is Knowledge? The Contextuality of Knowledge in the KAI and in the TSY; Knowledge Realized and the Ways to Knowledge: Wisdom; Intellect and Speculation; III. Saadya's Aim in the Two Books: Knowledge Expressed and Ineffable; Saadya's Aim in the Two Books: The KAI against Doubt and Uncertainty; The TSY: Against a Literal Understanding; IV. Saadya Now: The Two Epistemological Frameworks from a Contemporary Perspective |
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The Question of Externalism/Internalism and Foundationalism/Coherentism in Contemporary EpistemologyExternalism and Foundationalism in the KAI; Internalism and Coherentism in the TSY; Chapter Two The Understanding of Reality in the KAI and in the TSY; I. Creation ex Nihilo; The Place of Creation ex Nihilo in the KAI and the TSY; The Philoponean Proofs in Saadya; II. The Ontological Realms; Sensation Causing Material Reality (hạqīqa); Immediate Knowledge of the Intellect, and Illumination; The Map of Creation in the TSY |
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Connecting Creator and Creation: The Notions of the 'First Air' and of 'God's Created Glory'Between Creator and Creation: The Notion of the Soul in the KAI; The Description of the Creator in the KAI and the TSY; Aristotelian Categories and the Description of the Divine; III. Finitude, Time, and Space in the KAI and the TSY; The Question of Finitude: The Reformulation of the Philoponean Proofs in the Epistemology of the KAI; Extension of the Philoponean Proofs by Way of Analogy/Correspondence in the TSY; Gradualness, Time and Timelessness; The Concept of Place in the KAI and TSY |
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Back to Epistemology: Speculation and AnalogyKnowing and Knowledge: The Relationship between Epistemology and Ontology in the KAI; The Relationship between Epistemology and Ontology in the TSY; Chapter Three Rational Theology: An Islamic Parallel from the 10th Century: The Muġnī; I. Kalām in the Muġnī and Saadya; About the Thought of the Kalām; The Kalām in Saadya; The Muġnī of ʻAbd al-Jabbār; II. The Concept of Speculation (nazạr) in the Muġnī and Saadya; The Nature of Speculation; The Notion of the 'Tranquility of the Soul' (sukūn an-nafs) in the Epistemology of the Muġnī |
| Summary |
In Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist Gyongyi Hegedus argues that Saadya's thought can be conceived as a conscious attempt to harmonize rational theology (kalam) and medieval neo-Pythagorean thought |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942.
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| SUBJECT |
Saʻadia ben Joseph, 882-942 fast |
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Jewish philosophy.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
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Jewish philosophy
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Philosophy, Medieval
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004256446 |
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900425644X |
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9004256431 |
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9789004256439 |
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