Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
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Philosophy 2665F/G

INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH PHILOSOPHY I: FROM THE BEGINNINGS TO THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE


Topics include biblical and rabbinic texts as materials for philosophical exegesis -- the creation of the universe out of nothing, divine commands and moral requirements, freedom of the will, God's mysterious justice; Neoplatonism; Islamic influence on medieval Jewish thought; Maimonides and Jewish Aristotelianism; the Spanish conservative reaction; the Italian classical revival.

Antirequisite(s): Jewish Studies 2665F/G.

Extra Information: 3 hours. Cross-listed with Jewish Studies 2665F/G.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY B i  
Subject Code: PHILOSOP

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