Love and Intellect in Leone Ebreo: The Joys and Pains of Human Passion

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS viii
4. PREFACE ix
5. EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 1
6. Philo's Conception of the Divine Nature 21
7. Solomon Ibn Gabirol's Doctrine of Intelligible Matter 43
8. Parallel Structures in the Metaphysics of Iamblichus and Ibn Gabiror 61
9. Ibn Gabirol: The Sage Among the Schoolmen 77
10. From What is One and Simple only What is One and Simple Can Come to Be 111
11. Maimonides and Neoplatonism: Challenge and Response 137
12. Maimonidean Naturalism 157
13. The Virtue of Faith 195
14. Why not Pursue the Metaphor of Artisan and View God's Knowledge as Practical? 207
15. Matter as Creature and Matter as the Source of Evil: Maimonides and Aquinas 217
16. Divine Unity in Maimonides, the Tosafists and Me'iri 237
17. Platonic Themes in Gersonides' Doctrine of the Active Intellect" 255
18. Utterance and Ineffability in Jewish Neoplatonism 279
19. Self-Contraction of the Godhead in Kabbalistic Theology 299
20. Jewish Kabbalah and Platonism in the Middle Ages and Renaissance 319
21. Love and Intellect in Leone Ebreo: The Joys and Pains of Human Passion 353
22. Spinoza, Neopiatonic Kabbalist? 387
23. The Psychodynamics of Neoplatonic Ontology 411
24. Bibliography 427
25. The Contributors 435
26. INDEX 439