The Book of Job provokes Saadia, Maimonides, Ibn Tibbon and Gersonides to reflect on why God allows suffering.
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Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net
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Folge vom 16.03.2014HoP 167 - When Bad Things Happen to Good People - Suffering in Jewish Philosophy
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Folge vom 09.03.2014HoP 166 - Tamar Rudavsky on Gersonides and CrescasTamar Rudavsky joins Peter to talk about the two great medieval Jewish thinkers after Maimonides: Gersonides and Crescas.
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Folge vom 02.03.2014HoP 165 - Neither the Time Nor the Place - Hasdai CrescasḤasdai Crescas shows Aristotelian physics who’s boss, by defending alternative conceptions of time, place and infinity.
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Folge vom 23.02.2014HoP 164 - Man and Superman - Gersonides and the Jewish Reaction to AverroesThe super-commentator Gersonides and other Jews digest the ideas of Averroes.