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Jewish philosophy (Hebrew: פילוסופיה יהודית) includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism. Until modern Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) and Jewish emancipation, Jewish philosophy was preoccupied with attempts to reconcile coherent new ideas into the tradition of Rabbinic Judaism, thus organizing emergent ideas that are not necessarily Jewish into a uniquely Jewish scholastic framework and world-view. With their acceptance into modern society, Jews with secular educations embraced or developed entirely new philosophies to meet the demands of the world in which they now found themselves.
Medieval re-discovery of ancient Greek philosophy among the Geonim of 10th century Babylonian academies brought rationalist philosophy into Biblical-Talmudic Judaism. The philosophy was generally in competition with Kabbalah. Both schools would become part of classic rabbinic literature, though the decline of scholastic rationalism coincided with historical events which drew Jews to the Kabbalistic approach. For Ashkenazi Jews, emancipation and encounter with secular thought from the 18th century onwards altered how philosophy was viewed. Ashkenazi and Sephardi communities had later more ambivalent interaction with secular culture than in Western Europe. In the varied responses to modernity, Jewish philosophical ideas were developed across the range of emerging religious movements. These developments could be seen as either continuations of or breaks from the canon of rabbinic philosophy of the Middle Ages, as well as the other historical dialectic aspects of Jewish thought, and resulted in diverse contemporary Jewish attitudes to philosophical methods.
Jewishphilosophy (Hebrew: פילוסופיה יהודית) includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism. Until modern Haskalah...
Workmen's Circle. Jewishphilosophy includes all philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism. The Jewishphilosophy is extended...
Orthodox Jewishphilosophy comprises the philosophical and theological teachings of Orthodox Judaism. Though Orthodox Judaism sees itself as the heir...
Postmodern JewishPhilosophy, Steven Kepnes – Peter Ochs – Robert Gibbs, Westview Press 2000. "Postmodern Jewish thinkers understand their Jewishness differently...
ethics Jewishphilosophy Musar literature and other works of Jewish ethics Kabbalah Hasidic works Siddur and Jewish liturgy Piyyut (Classical Jewish poetry)...
Judeo-Islamic philosophies Neo-Confucianism Xuanxue Zen Philosophies during the modern era. Renaissance humanism Renaissance Jewishphilosophy Machiavellianism...
during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70). Zealotry was the term used by Josephus for a "fourth sect" or "fourth Jewishphilosophy" during this period...
references to Spinoza's philosophy can be found in this writer's work. Also in Argentina and previously to Borges, the Ukrainian-born Jewish intellectual Alberto...
tradition within Jainism Jewishphilosophy – Philosophy carried out by Jews, or in relation to the religion of Judaism Sikh philosophy – Religion originating...
philosophical discourses Paul the Persian Pahlavi literature See also: Jewishphilosophy Hillel the Elder (c. 110 BCE – 10CE) Philo of Alexandria (30 BCE –...
for Creation's philosophies, religions, sciences, arts, and political systems. Historically, Kabbalah emerged from earlier forms of Jewish mysticism, in...
or properties (i.e., it is the essence of God). In the philosophy of Maimonides and other Jewish-rationalistic philosophers, there is little which can...
Philosophy (φιλοσοφία, 'love of wisdom', in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence...
unstructured, personal Jewish prayer, may be part of structured Jewish services, or may be separate from prayer practices. Jewish mystics have viewed meditation...
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philosophers of religion point out that Creatio ex nihilo is stated in Jewish literature from the first century BC or earlier depending on the dating...
Ancient Egyptian philosophy, Babylonian philosophy, Christian philosophy, Jewishphilosophy, Iranian/Persian philosophy, and Islamic philosophy. The origins...
Jewish Kalam was an early medieval style of Jewishphilosophy that evolved in response to Kalam in Islam, which in turn was a reaction against Aristotelianism...
Christianity. Scholasticism received influence from both Jewishphilosophy and Islamic philosophy. This Christian Europe did not remain exclusively influenced...
broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of rabbinic writings throughout Jewish history. However, the term often refers specifically to literature from...
Israeli yeshivas and universities. Hashkafa JewishphilosophyJewish principles of faith Torat Eretz Yisrael Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University University...
German Martin Heidegger (b. 1889-1976). Various Jewish existentialists found influence in the secular philosophy of existentialism and have made various critiques...
Ethics Jewish ethics Moral idealism Rose, Or N.; Green Kaiser, Jo Ellen; Klein, Margie (2008). Righteous indignation : a Jewish call for justice. Jewish Lights...
Hellenistic philosophy is Ancient Greek philosophy corresponding to the Hellenistic period in Ancient Greece, from the death of Alexander the Great in...
medieval Jewishphilosophy is a matter of dispute among scholars. Medieval and early modern rabbis also created a pietistic tradition of Jewish ethics....