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Faith and heresy / by Reuven Agushewitz ; translated by Mark Steiner.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Agushevits, Reơuven.
- Standardized Title:
- Emuneh un apiḳorses̀. English
- Language:
- English
- Yiddish
- Subjects (All):
- Faith (Judaism).
- Materialism.
- Jewish philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 216 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Michael Scharf Publication Trust of the Yeshiva University Press ; Jersey City, NJ : Distributed by KTAV, [2006]
- Contents:
- Religion and atheism
- Idolatry
- Ancient materialism
- The new materialism
- Spinoza's metaphysics
- Force as a property of matter
- False arguments for materialism
- Unsuccessful attempts to refute Zeno's argument against infinite divisibility
- The problem of infinity
- An attempt to shed some light on the problems of infinity and motion
- A theistic rule of law is more expedient for science than a materialist one
- Determinism and freedom of the will
- Concerning the simplicity of materialism (refutation of the third argument)
- Cyclical evolution
- Heraclitus
- Creative evolution
- Henri Bergson
- Simplicity and morality
- the ethics of the materialists
- The relation between our bodies and our minds.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0881259101
- OCLC:
- 61694705
- Publisher Number:
- 9780881259100
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