ARISTOTLE IN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY

Philosophy Aristotle on Deformed Animal Kinds

Aristotle on Deformed Animal Kinds Charlotte Witt University of New Hampshire

Aristotle ’ s Logic at the University of Buffalo ’ s Department of Philosophy

We begin with an introductory overview of contributions made by more than twenty scholars associated with the Philosophy Department at the University of Buffalo during the last half-century to our understanding and evaluation of Aristotle’s logic. More well-known developments are merely mentioned in order to make room to focus on issues at the center of attention from the beginning: existential...

107 - 13485 - 0 - Aristotle ’ s Ethics and Medieval Philosophy : Moral Goodness

Few works in the history of philosophy have provoked as much discussion and diverse opinions as Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (NE). Philosophers and scholars in different eras have examined a number of moral topics, such as the best life for a human being, the meaning of virtue, the ideal of natural law and the reasons for moral actions, as a result of their reading of Aristotle’s text. Aristo...

Maimonides, Samuel Ibn Tibbon, and the Construction of a Jewish Tradition of Philosophy

During the thirteenth century, the Jews in southern France (called “Provence” in Hebrew sources) experienced a cultural revolution. Following the arrival of Maimonides’ writings and the translation of his Guide of the Perplexed into Hebrew, a very distinctive tradition of philosophy and exegesis was developed. Basic works of Graeco-Arabic and Arabic philosophy were translated into Hebrew, in re...

For the Love of God and People : a Philosophy of Jewish Law