Repercussions of the Kalam in Jewish Philosophy

Harry Austryn Wolfson

    1. ATTRIBUTES AND TRINITY

    1. AL--MUKAMMAS
    2. SAADIA
    3. KIRKISANI
    4. JOSEPH AL--BASIR
    5. JOSEPH IBN SADDIK
    6. JTJDAH HADASSI
    7. MAIMON IDES

    2. THE SEMANTIC ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF ATTRIBUTES

    1. AL—MUKAMMAS
    2. SAADIA
    3. JOSEPH AL—BASIR
    4. JOSEPH lEN SADDIK
    5. JUDAH HALEVI
    6. MAIMONIDES

    3. CHRISTOLOGY

    4. THE PRE--EXISTENT KORAN AND THE PRE--EXISTENT LAW

    1. MINOR MIDRASHIM
    2. SAADIA
    3. KIRKISANI
    4. JOSEPH AL—BASIR
    5. JUDAH BEN BARZILLAI
    6. JTJDAH HALEVI
    7. ABRAHAM IBN EZRA
    8. JUDAH HADASSI
    9. MAIMONIDES

    5. PRE--EXISTENT THRONE, AND CREATED WILL

    1. PRE—EXISTENT THRONE
    2. CREATED WILL

    6. UNAPPROVED THEORIES OF CREATION

    1. PLATO'S PRE--EXISTENT ETERNAL MATTER ATOMIZED
    2. THE ETERNAL AIR OF ANAXIMENES EMANATIONALIZED
    3. THE ETERNAL WATER OF A PARTLY NEOPLATONIZED THALES ATOMIZED
    4. DUALISM
    5. THE FOUR ELEMENTS OF EMPEDOCLES
    6. THE INFINITE OF ANAXIMANDER
    7. THE ARISTOTELIAN ETERNITY OF THE WORLD
    8. EPICUREAN ATOMISM AND CHANCE
    9. THE DAHRIYYAH'S ETERNITY OF THE WORLD AND WHO THE DAHRIYYAH WERE
    10. THE "KNOW-NOTHINGISM" OF PROTAGORAS, PYRRHO, AND CARNEADES

    7. THEORY OF ATOMS

    8. CAUSALITY

    1. SAADIA AND BAHYA
    2. JUDAH HALEVI AND ABRAHAM IBN DAUD
    3. MAIMONIDES
    4. JOSEPH AL--BASIR AND JESHUA BEN JUDAH
    5. IMPOSSIBILITIES

    9. FREE WILL

    1. MAIMONIDES' RESTATEMENT OF THE MUTAKALLIMUN'S VIEWS ON PREDESTINATION AND FREE WILL
    2. THE ANTINOMIES OF FREE WILL

    INDEX

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Harry Austryn Wolfson was Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University.