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10 gru 2020 · Hope as a Philosophy. The commitment to hope, moving ourselves forward from darkness into light, was one of the big gifts of Jewish civilization to the world.
The case for hope as a virtue was argued by Thomas Aquinas and by the medieval Jewish philosopher Joseph Albo. This chapter explores Aquinas and Albo's teachings about hope.
Throughout history, when human beings have sought hope they have found it in the Jewish story. Judaism is the religion, and Israel the home, of hope. Rabbi Jonathan Sacks is the former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom.
One of the major trends in modern Jewish philosophy was the attempt to develop a theory of Judaism through existentialism. Among the early Jewish existentialist philosophers was Lev Shestov (Jehuda Leib Schwarzmann), a Russian-Jewish philosopher.
It considers how the biblical religions, Christianity and Judaism, both resisted and were co-opted by modern hope. The emphasis here is on how Jewish and Christian thinkers conceptualized the relationship between hope and politics.
Equally at home in the world of philosophy and the Jewish tradition, thinkers as diverse as Plato, Judah Halevi, Friedrich Nietzsche, Menachem Schneerson, and Alasdair MacIntyre inhabit his intellectual world.
27 lut 2009 · Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) ranks as one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the modern period. As a historian of philosophy, Rosenzweig played a brief but noteworthy role in the neo-Hegelian revival on the German intellectual scene of the 1910s.
