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1941 – Henri Bergson died of pneumonia in occupied Paris, which he supposedly contracted after standing in a queue for several hours in order to register as a Jew. 1941 – Kurt Grelling was killed by the Nazis.
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.
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.
Nietzsche, who was most sensitive to the biblical elevation of hope, was most disparaging towards it. His war on Judaism and Christianity required many salvos against an essential trope of those traditions—hope in God.
24 kwi 2017 · According to Frankl’s observation regarding a higher death rate after Christmas, hope is a choice. Hope, it appears, is capable of sustaining life. While every external factor may root against you, one single act of internal defiance can counteract it all.
Hans Jonas (/ ˈ j oʊ n ɑː s /; German:; 10 May 1903 – 5 February 1993) was a German-born American Jewish philosopher. From 1955 to 1976 he was the Alvin Johnson Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research in New York City.
Professor Emil Ludwig Fackenheim, the eminent German-born Jewish philosopher of the Shoah, died in Jerusalem on 22 Elul 5763 (19 September 2003). Though his roots are with the great German-Jewish thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, and Walter Benjamin, and his religio-philosophical faith with Franz Rosenzweig,
