Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Volume 1

by Harry Austryn Wolfson, Isadore Twersky, George H. Williams

Overview

Readers familiar with the luminous scholarly contributions of Harry Austryn Wolfson will welcome this rich collection of essays that have been previously published in widely dispersed journals and books, The articles range over Aristotle and Plato; Philo; the Church Fathers; and Arabic, Jewish, and Christian philosophers of the Middle Ages: Averroes and Avicenna, Maimonides, and Thomas Aquinas. The twenty-eight pieces are arranged in such a manner that ideas develop and are pursued from one article to the next, forming a coherent whole. According to the editors, "This volume reflects the most basic biographical fact about Wolfson: his life has been one of unflagging commitment, uninterrupted creativity, and truly remarkable achievement...Wolfson's scholarship will be viewed with awe and admiration and his impact will be durable. He has added new dimensions to philosophical scholarship and illuminated wide areas of religious thought, plotting the terrain, blazing trails, and erecting guideposts for scores of younger scholars."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674847651
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	01/01/1973
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 8.75(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

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

Isadore Twersky was Nathan Littauer Professor of Jewish History and Philosophy at Harvard University.

Table of Contents

The Plurality of Immovable Movers in Aristotle, Averroes, and St. Thomas

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 63 (1958): 233-253. Copyright 1958 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College


The Problem of the Souls of the Spheres, from the Byzantine Commentaries on Aristotle through the Arabs and St. Thomas to Kepler

Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 16 (1962): 67-93


Philo Judaeus

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York, Macmillan, 1967), VI, 151-155. Copyright 1967 by Crowell, Collier, and Macmillan


Greek Philosophy in Philo and the Church Fathers

The Crucible of Christianity, Arnold Toynbee, ed. (New York, World Publishing Company, and London, Thames and Hudson, 1969), pp. 309-316, 354. Copyright 1969 by Thames and Hudson; reprinted by arrangement with the New American Library


The Knowability and Describability of God in Plato and Aristotle

Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 56-57 (1947): 233-249. Copyright 1947 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College


Albinus and Plotinus on Divine Attributes

Harvard Theological Review, 45 (1952): 115-130


Negative Attributes in the Church Fathers and the Gnostic Basilides

From Harvard Theological Review, 50 (1957): 145-156; also in Richerche di Storia Religiosa, Studi in onore de Giorgio La Piano, I (i), 269-278


Avicenna, Algazali, and Averroes on Divine Attributes

Homenaje a Millas-Vallicrosa, II (Barcelona, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas,1956),545-571


Plato's Pre-existent Matter in Patristic Philosophy

The Classical Tradition: Literary and Historical Studies in Honor of Harry Caplan (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1966), pp. 409-420. Copyright 1966 by Cornell University

Patristic Arguments Against the Eternity of the World

Harvard Theological Review, 59 (1966): 351-367


The Identification of Ex Nihilo with Emanation in Gregow of Nyssa

Harvard Theological Review, 63 (1970): 53-60


The Meaning of Ex Nihilo in the Church Fathers, Arabic and Hebrew Philosophy, and St. Thomas

Mediaeval Studies in Honor of J. D. M. Ford (Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1948), pp. 355-370. Copyright 1948 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College


The Meaning of Ex Nihilo in Isaac Israeli

The Jewish Quarterly Review, n. s. 50 (1959): 1-12


The Platonic, Aristotelian and Stoic Theories of Creation in Hallevi and Maimonides

Essays in Honour of the Very Rev. Dr. J. H. Hertz, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain (London, 1942), 427-442


The Internal Senses in Latin, Arabic, and Hebrew Philosophic Texts

Harvard Theological Review, 28 (1935): 69-133


Isaac Israeli on the Internal Senses

Jewish Studies in Memory of George A. Kohut (New York, Alexander Kohut Foundation, 1935), pp. 583-598


Notes on Isaac Israeli's Internal Senses

The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 51 (1961): 275-287


Maimonides on the Internal Senses

The Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 25(1935): 441-467


The Twice-revealed Averroes

From Inquiries into Medieval Philosophy: A Collection in Honor of Francis P. Clarke, James F. Ross, ed. (Westport, Conn., Greenwood Publishing Company, 1971), pp. 211-241; an earlier form in Speculum, 36 (1961), 373-392


Averroes' Lost Treatise on the Prime Mover

Hebrew Union College Annual, Vol. 23, Pt. One (1950-1951), pp. 683-710


Plan for the Publication of a Corpus Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem

Speculum, 36 (1961): 88-104; an earlier form in Speculum, 6 (1931): 412-427

Appendix I. Was There a Hebrew Translation from the Arabic of Averroes' Long De Anima?

Appendix II. The Identity of the Hebrew Translator from the Latin of Averroes' Long De Anima


The Amphibolous Terms in Aristotle, Arabic Philosophy and Maimonides

Harvard Theological Review, 31 (1938): 151-173


The Terms Tasawwur and Tasdiq in Arabic Philosophy and Their Greek, Latin and Hebrew Equivalents

The Moslem World, 33 (1943): 1-15


The Classification of Sciences in Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

Hebrew Union College Jubilee Volume, 1925, pp. 263-315


Additional Notes to the Article on the Classification of Sciences in Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

Hebrew Union College Annual, (1926): 371-375


Note on Maimonides' Classification of the Sciences

Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 26 (1936): 369-377


Notes on Proofs of the Existence of God in Jewish Philosophy

Hebrew Union College Annual, 1 (1924): 575-596


The Double Faith Theory in Saadia, Averroes and St. Thomas

Jewish Quarterly Review, n.s. 33 (1942): 231-264

Index