Pages in category "Jewish philosophy" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes ().

List of Jewish American philosophers Jean Améry Günther Anders Ruth Nanda Anshen Hannah Arendt Aristobulus of Alexandria Saul Ascher Léon Ashkenazi Henri Atlan Erich Auerbach Lyubov Axelrod A. J. Ayer Ariella Azoulay B Élisabeth Badinter Yehoshua Bar-Hillel Miguel de Barrios Zygmunt Bauman Isaac ben Sheshet Shabtai Ben-Dov Paul Benacerraf

The view was elaborated by the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 BCE–50 CE), who adopted it from ancient Greek and Hellenistic philosophy. Similar ideas can also be found in early Rabbinical literature. In the Middle Ages, the analogy became a prominent theme in the works of most Jewish philosophers. Contents 1 Rabbinical literature

JEWISH PHILOSOPHY The works constituting the Old Testament touch upon various problems that are discussed in philosophical texts, and the literary forms of some of these works, for instance that of the dialogue in the book of Job and that of Ecclesiastes, bear some similarity to those found in certain philosophical writings.

Philosophy (from Greek: φιλοσοφία, philosophia, 'love of wisdom') is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language. Such questions are often posed as problems to be studied or resolved. Some sources claim the term was coined by Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BCE); others dispute this …

In Jewish philosophy and in Rabbinic literature, it is noted that the Hebrew verb for prayer— hitpallel התפלל—is in fact the reflexive form of palal פלל, to judge. Thus, "to pray" conveys the notion of "judging oneself": [19] ultimately, the purpose of …

Philo of Alexandria, also called Philo Judaeus, was a Hellenistic Jewish philosopher who lived in Alexandria, in the Roman province of Egypt. Philo's deployment of allegory to harmonize Jewish scripture, mainly the Torah, with Greek philosophy was the first documented of its kind, and thereby often misunderstood. Many critics of Philo assumed his allegorical perspective would …

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