A History of Mediaeval Jewish PhilosophyIsaac Husik
A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
Isaac Husik
Essays
Book language: English
542 pages
A scholarly historical survey of Jewish philosophical thought in the Middle Ages. Isaac Husik presents major thinkers and the questions they debated—faith and reason, creation, free will—in clear essays. It offers an accessible introduction to a neglected tradition.
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Opening of the book
A HISTORY OF MEDIAEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY BY ISAAC HUSIK, A.M., Ph.D. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1916 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1916 By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1916. This book is issued by the Macmillan Company in conjunction with the Jewish Publication Society of America. TO SOLOMON SOLIS COHEN, M.D. AS A TOKEN OF GRATITUDE AND ESTEEM PREFACE No excuse is needed for presenting to the English reader a History of Mediæval Jewish Philosophy. The English language, poor enough in books on Jewish history and literature, can boast of scarcely anything at all in the domain of Jewish Philosophy. The Jewish Encyclopedia has no article on Jewish Philosophy, and neither has the eleventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Hastings' Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics will have a brief article on the subject from the conscientious and able pen of Dr. Henry Malter, but of books there is none. But while this is due to several causes, chief among them perhaps being that English speaking people in general and Americans in particular are more interested in positive
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