What was life like for Adam and Eve before they sinned? their sin? this mysterious Tree of Knowledge Good Evil? The views on these questions four major Jewish thinkers: Moses Maimonides (1138–1204), Nahmanides (1194–1270), Mendelssohn (1729–1786), Solomon Maimon (1753–1800), are discussed contrasted. For Maimonides, the Garden Eden Pure Reason, sin consisted in abandonment Reason. Nahmanides, A...

Review article of:
 Moses Maimonides, Dux neutrorum vel dubiorum, pt. I, ed. Diana Di Segni, Peeters, Leuven 2019 (Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales, Bibliotheca, 17, 1).

version goes dangerously astray: in ch.9, the Elders (sic) are not a specific group but merely older physicians as contrasted with the youthful Galen. Yet, given the editor's unfamiliarity with Greek and with the institutions of the Greek world, such errors of English translation are remarkably few, and the alert Galenist will be able with a little thought to work out the words of Galen that li...

In this contribution, I discuss some less well-known premodern and early modern antecedents of Spinoza’s concepts claims in the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus. On one hand, will argue, notion prophecy owes more to Moses Maimonides than any Christian author; through Maimonides, Spinoza may be linked discussion The Virtuous City by tenth-century Islamic philosopher al-Farabî. concern with as a po...

A. Overall point 1. Three propositions concerning God a. What these propositions are (1) That he exists (2) That he is one (3) That he is incorporeal b. Their importance (1) They are commanded to be believed by the ten commandments (a) #1: I am the Lord thy God; thou shalt have none other Gods but me. (b) #2: Against graven images. (2) Since the only part of the soul that survives is the acquir...

dangerous for feverish patients to visit the bathhouse in certain circumstances. It could, for example, severely worsen their condition and ultimately result in death. If we now turn briefly to the beginning of lemma I.4 of Galen’s Commentary on the Hippocratic Prognosticon we find that ‘a certain physician took to the bathhouse a young man who had just begun to perspire with a syncope-type swe...

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Medical School, and Consultant, Division of Executive and International Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA; and Editor-in-Chief, Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal and Director of the Department of Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel, and the Ruth & Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Israe...