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Lecturer(s)
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Visi Tamás, doc. Ph.D., M.A.
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Course content
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1. Science and Judaism in Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages: Jewish doctors, Hippocrates in Hebrew (Sefer Asaf) 2. Sefer Yetsira: the enigma and the legacy (Shabbatay Donolo, Sa'adyah gaon, Hassidei Ashkenaz) 3. Sa'adya gaon: a cultural hero? (The Book of Beliefs and Opinions) 4. The Hour of Neoplatonism: Shlomo Ibn Gabirol 5. Sephardi culture in crisis I: Judah Halevi 6. Philosophy and Biblical Exegesis: Abraham Ibn Ezra and His Legacy 7. Sephardi culture in crisis II: Moses Maimonides 8. Samuel Ibn Tibbon and the Formation of the Maimonidean school 9. The Great Schism: Controversies over the legacy of Maimonides: 13th-16th centuries 10.A Correctorium to the Guide of the Perplexed: Gersonides' Wars of the Lord 11. Revolts against Maimonides (and Aristotle): Joseph Kaspi, Moses Narboni, Hasday Crescas 12. Philosophy and Kabbalah
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming)
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Learning outcomes
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The basic facts pertaining to medieval Jewish philosophers -- places, dates, cultural interactions, texts, manuscripts, editions, translations -- will be reviewed with a special emphasis on Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations and on the role of medicine in philosophy.
Ability to identify the most important personalities and philosophical topics of medieval Jewish philosophers, and to contextualize them in terms of precedents and influence. Familiarity with Collette Sirat's basic monograph on the topic.
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Prerequisites
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None.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Active participation in the seminars on the basis of primary and secondary sources distributed during the course. Maximum 2 absences are tolerated. Test at the end of semester on the basis of Colette Sirat, A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages.The test will include a short essay which students will have to write in-class, without using any electronic device (no google, no wikipedia, no large language-model software or any kind of AI).
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Recommended literature
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C. Sirat. (1996). A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Cambridge, Paris.
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