Jewish Religious Philosophy in the Middle Ages - ARL100215

• Anglický název: Jewish Religious Philosophy in the Middle Ages
• Zajišťuje: Ústav filosofie a religionistiky (21-UFAR)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2012
• Semestr: zimní
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 4
• Způsob provedení zkoušky: zimní s.:
• Rozsah, examinace: zimní s.:2/0, Zk [HT]
• Počet míst: neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Garant: PhDr. Milan Lyčka, Ph.D.

Anotace

čeština

Poslední úprava: UFRCHLUP (05.07.2011)

Základní úvod do středověké židovské filosofie.

angličtina

Poslední úprava: UFRLYCKA (29.09.2011)

Traditional, Orthodox Judaism is not interested in systematic reflection on the "Jewish faith"-its focus is rather on religious practice. The motivation for a rational, conceptual definition of traditional religious ideas comes, instead, from outside-first, through the direct influence of Greek and Hellenistic thought; then, and to a greater extent, through the influence of rationalistic branches of Islamic theology. While Jewish philosophy has accepted forms and terminology originally foreign to Judaism, it has always conserved the specific content that is bound up with interpretations of the distinctive role of Israel in world history.

The course aims to give a historical survey of the development of Jewish philosophy, from its beginnings in the ancient Greco-Roman world, the confrontation with medieval Islamic thinking, the full development of autonomous Jewish philosophical reflection, to its decline at the end of the Middle Ages. The main religious and philosophical ideas will be discussed and the most important Jewish philosophers will be presented.

Literatura

Poslední úprava: UFRLYCKA (29.09.2011)

Required Readings:

 

Julius Guttmann, Philosophies of Judaism. New York: Doubleday & Company, 1966

Isaac Husik, A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy. New York: Atheneum, 1969

Colette Sirat, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990

 

All texts will be available in the Moodle.

 

Požadavky ke zkoušce

Poslední úprava: UFRLYCKA (29.09.2011)

The course will be completed by an exam: Students shall submit a final essay of 2,000 words on a topic agreed with the tutor in advance.

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: UFRLYCKA (29.09.2011)

October 7, 2011

 

Philosophical reflection of Judaism in the Bible and the Talmud. Hellenistic Jewish philosophy: Philo of Alexandria

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 3-49

 

October 14

 

Historical and intellectual context of the birth of Jewish philosophy in the Middle Ages. Jewish kalām: Saadiah Gaon

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 53-83; or Husik, pp. xiii-l, 23-47; or Sirat, pp. 1-13, 18-37

 

October 21

 

Neo-Platonism: Isaac Israeli, Bahya ibn Paquda

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 95-101, 117-124; or Husik, pp. 1-16, 80-105; or Sirat, pp. 57-68, 81-85

 

November 4

 

Solomon ibn Gabirol

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 101-117; or Husik, pp. 59-79; or Sirat, pp. 68-81

 

November 11

 

Judah Halevi

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 136-151; or Husik, pp. 150-183; or Sirat, pp. 113-131

 

November 18

 

Aristotelianism: Abraham ibn Daud

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 152-172; or Husik, pp. 197-235; or Sirat, pp. 141-155

 

November 25

 

Maimonides I

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 172-207; or Husik, pp. 236-311; or Sirat, pp. 157-203

 

December 2

 

Maimonides II

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 172-207; or Husik, pp. 236-311; or Sirat, pp. 157-203

 

 

December 9

 

Maimonidean controversies. Jewish philosophy in the 13^th century

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 207-236

 

December 16

 

The decline of Jewish medieval philosophy. Levi ben Gershom, Hasdai Crescas, Joseph Albo

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 236-291; or Husik, pp. 328-361, 388-427; or Sirat, pp. 282-308, 357-372, 374-381

 

January 6, 2012

 

The echo of Jewish medieval philosophy in modern Jewish thought

 

Reading: Guttmann, pp. 275-324