MAIMONIDES AND HALEVI: A STUDY IN TYPICA by Harry Austryn Wolfson
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WHAT most characteristically distinguishes Jews and Greeks, is their respective views of life. That of the former was ethical, that of the latter was cosmological. Of course, neither was exclusive. In the process of the development of their respective ideas, Jews became interested in cosmology and Greeks in ethics. Rabbis of the Mishnic era assiduously cultivated cosmological studies OvE>&ro news}, and Greek philosophy ever since Socrates was for the most part ethical. Yet the emphasis has always been laid on the point of view with which they started. Jewish cosmology has x always been ethical, while Greek ethics has always been cosmological.

The Jews beheld nature subjectively, and based their view of life on the inner experience, taken as produced by the response of their selves to the external world rather than on the flat observation of the external world itself. The flux of nature, sweeping over their spirit, stirred its chords to feelings pleasant or unpleasant, and out of these notes, registering the impact, they constructed their life-view. Thunder, lightning, and death were not for them merely physical events; nor was it the tremendous noise,

the flashing light, and the sudden disappearance of life that they dwelt upon. Their concern was the shocking, dazzling, and terrifying effects of these phenomena upon their minds. All natural phenomena appeared to them as either physically good or bad, pleasing or painful. But things appeared to them not merely as physically good or bad but also as morally good or bad. Death, they recognized, is bad, and life is good; but why, they also asked, is murder more terrible than natural death, and why is the saving of anothers life a pleasure to the saver? By putting this question, they realized the existence of moral good and evil, and began to judge things in these terms. So by means of introspection rather than inspection, from their version of the world rather than its own version of itself, the Jews developed their organized ethical view of life ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781375987073
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 1900
  • Height: 0 mm
  • No of Pages: 48
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Weight: 132 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1375987070
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: A Study in Typical Jewish Attitudes Towards Greek Philosophy in the Middles Ages
  • Width: 0 mm

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