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March 31, 1969

Student Notes on Philosophy 78 (1969)

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Add the following to discussion of Maimonides on Free Will and Determinism. Maimonides distinguishes between actional attributes, which may be positive, and essential attributes, which are all negative – such as: existence. Not only with regard to scriptural attributes, but even the four intellectually conceived attributes (life, power, knowledge, will) are actional. Hence, all of them must be accepted as homonyms, and their use is strictly equivocal. Therefore, when we speak of knowledge as applied to God and as applied to man, they are of different orders of meaning, and have nothing in common but the word itself.
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Student Notes on R. Hayyim of Volozhin (1969)

ר׳ חיים מוולוז׳ין – 1749–1821: תלמיד הגר״א; לא חתם על החרם נגד החסידות. בזמן קיצוניות דתית לא היה קיצוני. בטבעו היה אדם מתון בכל הפולמוסים של התקופה. היה ההוגה הראשי של המתנגדים – אבל לא רצה שהפולמוס יגיע לידי חלוק העם. נפש החיים – בנו ר׳ יצחק הדפיס את הספר חמש שנים לאחר מיתתו. נפש החיים מיועד לאנשי הישיבה – ספר מוסר ותיאולוגיה קבלית הכולל...
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Syllabus for Philosophy 11: Problems in Jewish Philosophy (1970)

I. Free will and determinism: exegetical problems in Bible and commentaries; formulation of the problem in the Mishnah. Parmenides and Democritus – and the history of the problem in Western philosophy. Resolutions suggested by Saadia, Ibn Daud, Halevi, Gersonides, Crescas, with special emphasis on Maimonides. Treatment of the problem by modern secular – especially scientific and psychological – and Christian thinkers.II DOGMATOLOGY. History of Ikkarim - formulations. Attempts in Philo, Talmud. Islamic and Christian dogmatology. Maimonides Principles. Crescas. Albo. Readings in Maimonides and Albo. Contempora y problems.III. FAITH AND DOUBT. Hefinitions of faith in Talmud, Saadia, Maimonides. Classifications of forms of faith by Buber, Wolfson, Tillich. Legitimation of Doubt in context of faith: Talmud, Rashi, Saadia. Writings of contemporary linguistic philosophers.
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