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57Silence Is Praise to YouAmerican Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 76 (1): 25-49. 2002.Guide I: 68 presents two challenges to Maimonides’ negative theology. In I: 50–60 Maimonides insists that we cannot ascribe positiveattributes to God; however, in I: 68, he affirms that God is intellect. Second, I: 56 and III: 20 assert that divine and human knowledge have nothing in common; “knowledge” is a purely equivocal term. However, I: 68 emphasizes that both divine and human knowledge exhibit a unity between subject, object, and the act of intellection. Guide I: 53 and I: 58 offer a reso…Read more
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28Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Ha-Levi's KuzariJournal of the American Oriental Society 123 (1): 244. 2003.
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27Being and the Good: Maimonides on Ontological BeautyJournal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 19 (1): 1-45. 2011.Maimonides expresses the view that being is goodness; evil is a deprivation of being and goodness. This view is prominent in Neoplatonism but has strong roots in Aristotle as well. While Maimonides problematizes moral language of good and evil, he makes use of an ontological sense of Necessary Existence as the absolute good. Plotinus wrote that beings are the beautiful. Avicenna adds that the pure good is Necessary Existence, which is free of deficiency, as it has no possibility of lacking exist…Read more
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21Philosophies of happiness: a comparative introduction to the flourishing lifeColumbia University Press. 2017.Philosophies of Happiness provides a global, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary perspective on how to create a fulfilling life. Diana Lobel brings together a broad range of philosophical traditions--Eastern and Western, ancient and contemporary--to show that certain themes resonate across texts, suggesting core features of a happy life.
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20A Sufi-jewish Dialogue: Philosophy And Mysticism In Bahya Ibn Paqūda's “duties Of The Heart” (review)Speculum 83 (3): 728-729. 2008.
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7The Quest for God and the Good: World Philosophy as a Living ExperienceColumbia University Press. 2011.Diana Lobel takes readers on a journey across Eastern and Western philosophical and religious traditions to discover a beauty and purpose at the heart of reality that makes life worth living. Guided by the ideas of ancient thinkers and the insight of the philosophical historian Pierre Hadot, _The Quest for God and the Good_ treats philosophy not as an abstract, theoretical discipline, but as a living experience. For centuries, human beings have struggled to know why we are here, whether a higher…Read more
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Speaking about God: Bahya as biblical exegeteIn Charles Harry Manekin & Robert Eisen (eds.), Philosophers and the Jewish Bible, University Press of Maryland. 2008.
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