Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 262 Seiten)
ISBN:
9783110569599
,
9783110568820
Series Statement:
Jewish thought, philosophy, and religion 3
Content:
To date, scholars have skilfully discussed aspects of Polqar’s thought, and yet none of the existing studies offers a comprehensive examination that covers Polqar’s thought in its entirety. This book aims to fill this lacuna by tracing and contextualizing both Polqar’s Islamic sources (al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and Averroes) and his Jewish sources (Maimonides and Isaac Albalag). The study brings to light three of Polqar’s main purposes; (1) seeking to defend Judaism as a true religion against Christianity; (2) similarly to his fellow Jewish Averroists, Polqar wishes to defend the discipline of philosophy. By philosophy, Polqar means Averroes' interpretation of Aristotle. As a consequence, he offers an Averroistic interpretation of Judaism and becomes one of the main representatives of Jewish Averroism; (3) defending his philosophical interpretation of Judaism. From a social and political point of view, Polqar's unreserved embrace of philosophy raised problems within the Jewish community; he had to refute the Jewish traditionalists’ charge that he was a heretic, led astray by philosophy. The main objective guiding this study is that Polqar advances a systematic naturalistic interpretation of Judaism, which in many cases does not agree with traditional Jewish views. -- De Gruyter website (accessed 6.4.2020)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3110568756
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110568752
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Haliva, Racheli Isaac Polqar Berlin : De Gruyter, 2020 ISBN 3110568756
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110568752
Language:
English
Keywords:
Polgar, Isaak Ibn-
;
Jüdische Philosophie
DOI:
10.1515/9783110569599
Author information:
Haliva, Racheli
