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Auteur(s) : Haliva, Racheli
Titre(s) : Isaac Polqar - a Jewish philosopher or a philosopher and a Jew? [Texte imprimé] : philosophy and religion in Isaac Polqar's ʿEzer ha-Dat and Tešuvat Epiqoros / Racheli Haliva
Publication : Berlin ; Boston (Mass.) : De Gruyter, copyright 2020
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-262 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion ; 3
Lien à la collection : Jewish thought, philosophy and religion (print)
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. [236]-249. Notes bibliogr. Index
To date, scholars have skilfully discussed aspects of Polqar's thought, and yet none
of the existing studies offers a comprehensive examination that covers Polqar's thought
in its entirety. This book aims to fill this lacuna by tracing and contextualizing
both Polqar's Islamic sources (al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes) and his Jewish sources
(Maimonides and Isaac Albalag). The study brings to light three of Polqar's main purposes;
(1) seeking to defend Judaism as a true religion against Christianity; (2) similarly
to his fellow Jewish Averroists, Polqar wishes to defend the discipline of philosophy.
By philosophy, Polqar means Averroes' interpretation of Aristotle. As a consequence,
he offers an Averroistic interpretation of Judaism and becomes one of the main representatives
of Jewish Averroism; (3) defending his philosophical interpretation of Judaism. ;
From a social and political point of view, Polqar's unreserved embrace of philosophy
raised problems within the Jewish community; he had to refute the Jewish traditionalists'
charge that he was a heretic, led astray by philosophy.The main objective guiding
this study is that Polqar advances a systematic naturalistic interpretation of Judaism,
which in many cases does not agree with traditional Jewish views. "Haliva's lucid,
learned, and incisive monograph on the thought of Isaac Polqar is the first comprehensive
study devoted to this important, but neglected fourteenth century Jewish Averroist.
It makes a significant contribution to our knowledge of post-Maimonidean medieval
Jewish philosophy. ; Haliva convincingly shows that while Polqar claims to follow
Maimonides, he consistently pushes his thought in a more radical direction, offering
a severely naturalistic interpretation of Jewish religious principles and refusing
to make any concessions to more traditional theological modes of thought. Her study
leads us to ask whether it is possible to uphold such an uncompromising philosophical
and naturalistic reading of Judaism as that of Polqar, that is, whether it does justice
to the Jewish religious principles it purports to interpret and enables us to maintain
the authority of traditional Halakhah." Lawrence J.
Sujet(s) : Isaac ben Joseph ibn Pulkar -- Critique et interprétation
Moïse Maïmonide (1138-1204)
Judaïsme et philosophie
Philosophie juive
Averroïsme
Indice(s) Dewey :
296.3 (23e éd.) = Judaïsme - Théologie, morale, points de vue sur les enjeux sociaux
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783110568752
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46582020x
Notice n° :
FRBNF46582020
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