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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.