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Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals

Is There a Jewish Philosophy? Rethinking Fundamentals

Roth, Leon

Paperback

Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

PhilosophyGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 1874774552
ISBN13: 9781874774556
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Mar 1 1999
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.46 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Leon Roth (1896-1963) was the first Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He saw it as his purpose to encourage his students to think, and to think about their Judaism. Typical of his approach is the question with which this selection of essays opens: in what sense, asks Roth, can we talk about Jewish philosophy, and what can we expect to find if we look for it? Defining philosophy as 'the search, through thought, for the permanent', Roth argues that in order to say whether there is a truly Jewish philosophy one has to 'rethink fundamentals' those elements in our lives, in history, in nature which appear to be not incidental and trivial but basic. The twelve elegantly written essays published here represent a selection of Roth's explorations of various aspects of his theme.

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