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Free Will and Divine Knowledge in Medieval Jewish Philosophy: Maimonides, Gersonides and R. Shlomo Ben Adrat (Rashba)
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Abstract This article discusses human free will from the perspective of three Jewish thinkers of the Middle-ages: Maimonides, Gersonides and Solomon Ben Adret. We commence with understanding the parameters of free will in Jewish thought and then discuss the theological problem of all religionists in the midd... view more
This article discusses human free will from the perspective of three Jewish thinkers of the Middle-ages: Maimonides, Gersonides and Solomon Ben Adret. We commence with understanding the parameters of free will in Jewish thought and then discuss the theological problem of all religionists in the middle-ages, namely, God's prescience and the possibility of human free will. We discuss as well the idea of Divine knowledge of the present and the future from the perspective of the rationalist and kabbalist.... view less
Keywords
morality; paradoxy; freedom of will; determinism
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Free Keywords
free will; knowledge; logic and paradoxes
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 47-71
Journal
Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 2018 (2018) 1
Issue topic
Politics of identity
ISSN
1582-2486
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0