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Subject(s)

• Saʻadia ben Joseph 882-942 [Browse]
• Jewish philosophy [Browse]
• Philosophy, Medieval [Browse]

Series

• Études sur le judaïsme médiéval t. 58. [More in this series]
• Études sur le Judaïsme médiéval, 0169-815X ; t. 58

Summary note

"In Saadya Gaon: The Double Path of the Mystic and the Rationalist Gyongyi Hegedus offers a new perspective on the thought of the most significant medieval Jewish thinker of the pre-Maimonidean era, Saadya Gaon. Saadya’s important philosophical works belong to two distinct traditions: his main work is written in the style of rationalist theology (kalam), but he is also responsible for composing a commentary in a neo-Pythagorean tone. In addition to contextualizing the two traditions and analyzing their Islamic parallels, the book makes the argument that Saadya consciously constructed a two-layered model of thought and harmonized two styles: one based on sensation and logic, the other on a specific prophetic insight"--Back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-237) and index.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Acknowledgements; Introduction; Saadya's Life and the Cultural Milieu; The Kitāb al-Amānāt wa-l-Iʻtiqādāt (Book of Beliefs and Convictions): Structure, Content and Method; The Sef̣er Yeziṛah; Saadya's Commentary on the Sef̣er Yeziṛah; The Literature on Saadya's Epistemology; Chapter One Two Paths to Knowledge; I. Process and Insight; The Process of the Elimination of Doubts in Ten Steps; The Six Observations; The Process of Cognition in the TSY; KAI: An Epistemological Dualism; TSY: An Epistemology Based on Simplicity; II. The Sources of Knowledge.
• Abraham's Supposed Authorship of the Sef̣er YeziṛahProphecy and Philosophy; What is Knowledge? The Contextuality of Knowledge in the KAI and in the TSY; Knowledge Realized and the Ways to Knowledge: Wisdom; Intellect and Speculation; III. Saadya's Aim in the Two Books: Knowledge Expressed and Ineffable; Saadya's Aim in the Two Books: The KAI against Doubt and Uncertainty; The TSY: Against a Literal Understanding; IV. Saadya Now: The Two Epistemological Frameworks from a Contemporary Perspective
• The Question of Externalism/Internalism and Foundationalism/Coherentism in Contemporary EpistemologyExternalism and Foundationalism in the KAI; Internalism and Coherentism in the TSY; Chapter Two The Understanding of Reality in the KAI and in the TSY; I. Creation ex Nihilo; The Place of Creation ex Nihilo in the KAI and the TSY; The Philoponean Proofs in Saadya; II. The Ontological Realms; Sensation Causing Material Reality (haq̣īqa); Immediate Knowledge of the Intellect, and Illumination; The Map of Creation in the TSY
• Connecting Creator and Creation: The Notions of the 'First Air' and of 'God's Created Glory'Between Creator and Creation: The Notion of the Soul in the KAI; The Description of the Creator in the KAI and the TSY; Aristotelian Categories and the Description of the Divine; III. Finitude, Time, and Space in the KAI and the TSY; The Question of Finitude: The Reformulation of the Philoponean Proofs in the Epistemology of the KAI; Extension of the Philoponean Proofs by Way of Analogy/Correspondence in the TSY; Gradualness, Time and Timelessness; The Concept of Place in the KAI and TSY
• Back to Epistemology: Speculation and AnalogyKnowing and Knowledge: The Relationship between Epistemology and Ontology in the KAI; The Relationship between Epistemology and Ontology in the TSY; Chapter Three Rational Theology: An Islamic Parallel from the 10th Century: The Muġnī; I. Kalām in the Muġnī and Saadya; About the Thought of the Kalām; The Kalām in Saadya; The Muġnī of ʻAbd al-Jabbār; II. The Concept of Speculation (nazaṛ) in the Muġnī and Saadya; The Nature of Speculation; The Notion of the 'Tranquility of the Soul' (sukūn an-nafs) in the Epistemology of the Muġnī

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ISBN

• 9789004256439 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004256431 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9789004256446 (e-book)
• 900425644X (e-book)

LCCN

^^2013018344

OCLC

843037358

RCP

H - S

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