Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudavsky, Tamar, 1951-

Series:

SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy

SUNY series in Jewish philosophy

SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creation--History of doctrines.

Creation.

Jewish cosmology.

Jewish philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Time.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traces the development of the concepts of time, cosmology, and creation in medieval Jewish philosophy.

Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Illustration""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem""; ""Introduction""; ""Biblical Conceptions of Time""; ""Rabbinical Models of Time and Creation""; ""Time, Order, and Creation in the Greek Philosophical Tradition""; ""Ancient Greek Astronomy and Cosmology""; ""Plotinus and the Neoplatonist Tradition""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Creation, and Cosmology""; ""Introduction""; ""Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed""

""Creation Models in Maimonides""""Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides""; ""Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas""; ""Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation""; ""Conclusion""; ""Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno""; ""Introduction""; ""Traversing the Infinite: Zeno, Aristotle, and John Philoponus""; ""Jewish Neoplatonic Considerations of Infinite Divisibility""; ""Meeting the Kalam Challenge: Kalam Atomism Described""; ""Rejection of Kalam Atomism: Saadia Gaon, Halevi, Ibn Daud, and Maimonides""; ""Gersonides on the Continuum""

""Crescas on Infinity, Space, and the Vacuum""""Conclusion""; ""Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience""; ""Introduction""; ""The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox""; ""Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom""; ""Maimonides' Compatibilism""; ""Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud""; ""Omni science and Human Freedom in Gersonides""; ""Indeterminism and Prophecy""; ""The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on T)ivine Knowledge and Possibility""; ""Conclusion""; ""Prelude to Modernity""; ""Introduction""; ""Newton and His Philosophical Precursors""

""Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism""""Time, Duration, and Creation: Spinoza and Descartes Compared""; ""Substance, Infinity, and Divisibility in Spinoza""; ""The Role Played by Imagination""; ""Spinoza on Divine Omniscience and Contingency""; ""Conclusion""; ""Back Matter""; ""Conclusion: Eternity a parte post, Individuation, and Immortality""; ""NOTES""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""INDEX""; ""Back Cover""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-275) and index.

ISBN:

9780791493250

0791493253

OCLC:

794701361