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kart., Broschiert. Zustand: Gut. Dt. Erstausg. 373 S., 19 cm. Einband leicht berieben/angeschmutzt. Seiten altersbedingt gebräunt, ansonsten sehr gut erhalten. ISBN: 9783499555589 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 360.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: NEAR FINE. xii, 323pp. Sewn binding in printed wraps. Tips a bit worn, very clean and sharp otherwise. 'Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344) was a Provençal Jew whose scholarly and literary interests included astronomy, mathematics, biblical exegesis, and philosophy. In deciding to offer a translation of Gersonides' treatise on divine cognition Professor Samuelson has chosen wisely; this theory is both philosophically interesting and historically important. Gersonides accepted the validity of the dilemma between divine foreknowledge and human freedom and claimed that God has no knowledge of particulars, especially of future contingent events. Yet, although Gersonides clearly opted for human freedom, he did not abandon altogether divine omniscience. The latter notion is redefined as: God knows all that which is knowable; but future contingent events are not knowable. Professor Samuelson's book consists of two parts: a long introduction and a translation with commentary. The introduction provides a detailed analysis of Gersonides theory of divine cognition and a general account of Gersonides views on other philosophical matters. The former is most useful, since Gersonides' argumentation is not always transparent; the latter is informative, although it raises several questions. Professor Samuelson imputes to Gersonides several doctrines whose provenance in Gersonides is either dubious or debatable. For example, he attributes to Gersonides a distinction between individuals and particulars, which he claims is expressed in Gersonides philosophical Hebrew by two conceptually distinct terms. But this is false: Gersonides uses these terms indiscriminately. Sometimes Samuelson suggests that Cersonides advocates a certain theory (e.g., a theory of modal expressions), but he does not indicate where such a theory can be found in Gersonides' writings. Nevertheless, his introduction is quite helpful and philosophically interest-ing. The translation itself if based upon a copy of the editio princeps that contains hand-written variant readings which clearly improve the faulty state of the original printed edition. In translational methodology Samuelson has chosen the literal approach, which is certainly commendable; but the translation tends to be monotonous because he regularly employs the same English word for each occurrence of a particular Hebrew term. The use of synonyms would have resulted in a more readable translation. There are passages that could have been rendered more accurately or precisely: but happily these are relatively few and usually occur where the argument itself is most convoluted or obscure. Professor Samuelson has given us an important and generally accurate English edition of Gersonides' treatise on divine cognition.' ( Seymour Feldman, Review in AAR Vol. 47, No. 2, June, 1979).

kart. Dt. Erstausg. 373 S. ; 19 cm Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.

Originalbroschur. Zustand: Gut. 373 S. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Leicht berieben, insgesamt sehr gut und sauber. - Diese Einführung beschreibt das jüdische Denken von 1492, dem Jahr der Vertreibung der Juden aus Spanien, bis in die 1980er Jahre. Nach einem historischen Gesamtüberblick und der Wiedergabe der vielfältigen Erscheinungsformen der jüdischen Religion und des weltlichen Judentums werden die wichtigsten Repräsentanten jüdischer Philosophie mit ihren Werken vorgestellt: Baruch Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Mordechai Kaplan und Emil Fackenheim. ISBN 9783499555589 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 320.