Jesuit Strategic Scepticism toward Religious Self-Consciousness and Commonalities: Chinese Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Eyes of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) and His “Translator” Nicolas Trigault (1557–1628)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Editorial IX
4. Part I: Articles
5. The Simultaneous Genesis of Monotheism and Scepticism in the Jewish Religion 3
6. Socratic Impulse, Secular Tendency, and Jewish Emancipation: A Comparison between Simone Luzzatto and Moses Mendelssohn 11
7. The Theory of Aḥwāl and Arguments against the Law of Non-Contradiction 31
8. The Causes of Epochē: A Note on Stromateis 8.22.1–4 53
9. Meister Eckhart Reading Ibn Gabirol’s Fons vitae 65
10. Obadiah Sforno and the Individual Human Soul 101
11. Arnold Geulincx: Scepticism and Mental Holism 125
12. Spinoza’s Affective Scepticism 145
13. What was Maimon After? His Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science in 1790 173
14. Does Judaism Have Dogma? Moses Mendelssohn and a Pivotal Nineteenth-Century Debate 219
15. From Scepticism to Tolerance of “the Other”: The Example of Yeshayahu Leibowitz 243
16. Jesuit Strategic Scepticism toward Religious Self-Consciousness and Commonalities: Chinese Muslims, Jews, and Christians in the Eyes of Matteo Ricci (1552–1610) and His “Translator” Nicolas Trigault (1557–1628) 265
17. Part II: Reports
18. Activities and Events 281
19. Report on the Library of Jewish Scepticism 303