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Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) [1] was an Austrian neurologist, psychologist, philosopher, and Holocaust survivor, [2] who founded logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy that describes a search for a life's meaning as the central human motivational force. [3]
The idea that hope is a virtue is found in the Bible. 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.
David ibn Merwan al-Mukkamas was author of the earliest known Jewish philosophical work of the Middle Ages, a commentary on the Sefer Yetzirah; he is regarded as the father of Jewish medieval philosophy.
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.
24 kwi 2017 · In Man’s Search for Meaning, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl articulates the necessity of hope through his time spent as a prisoner at various concentration camps during WWII.
Jewish philosophy reached its peak with Maimonides, the story continues, but his synthesis of reason and religion, though initially popular among a few intellectuals, caused a reaction among the traditionalists, who finally got the upper hand around the end of the fifteenth century.
