169 - A Matter of Principles: Albo and Abravanel
Joseph Albo and Isaac Abravanel critique Maimonides’ attempt to lay down foundations for the Jewish law.
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Themes:
• D.R. Blumenthal, The Philosophic Questions and Answers of Ḥōter ben Shelōmō (Leiden: 1981).
• I. Husik (trans.), Joseph Albo: The Book of Principles (Sefer Ha-Ikkarim) (Philadelphia: 1946).
• M. Kellner (trans.), Abravanel: Principles of Faith (Rosh Amanah) (Rutherford: 1982).
• S. Feldman, Philosophy in a Time of Crisis: Don Isaac Abravanel, Defender of the Faith (London: 2003).
• W.Z. Harvey, “Albo’s Discussion of Time,” Jewish Quarterly Review 70 (1979-80), 21-30.
• M. Kellner, Dogma in Medieval Jewish Thought: from Maimonides to Abravanel (Oxford: 1986).
• S. Rauschenbach, Joseph Albo: Jüdische Philosophy und Christliche Kontroverstheologie in der frühen Neuzeit (Leiden: 2002).
• S. Weiss, Joseph Albo on Free Choice: Exegetical Innovation in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Oxford: 2017).
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Pascal!
I first started listening to this podcast back in highschool since I was a HUGE Blaise Pascal fan but only made it through late antiquity. So glad to be back ten years later!
This reminds me of how Pascal said "Let no one say that I have said nothing new; the arrangement of the subject is new." (But then he goes and leaves us with only scraps so we don't actually know what his arrangement was, lol)
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Pascal
You've returned at the right time then, we are getting to Pascal soon in the France and Netherlands early modern series!
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