Předmět Seminar in Philosophy and Religion (JUD / 1F2)

Na serveru studentino.cz naleznete nejrůznější studijní materiály: zápisky z přednášek nebo cvičení, vzorové testy, seminární práce, domácí úkoly a další z předmětu JUD / 1F2 - Seminar in Philosophy and Religion, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci (UP).

Materiál	Typ	Datum	Počet stažení

Obsah

1. Introduction: Alien Wisdom (Civilization, truth, and identity "alien wisdom" as a religious problem the rabbinic prohibition on "Greek wisdom" Empire and knowledge Sciences sponsored by empires Philosophy sponsored by empires Rome Iran Islamic empires: civilization and identity Umayyad Caliphate Abbasid Caliphate Fatimid Caliphate (Ismailism) Arabic grammar versus Greek logic: a debate in tenth-century Baghdad)Text: D. S. Margoliouth, "The Discussion between Abu Bishr Matta and Abu Sa'id al-Sirafi on the Merits of Logic and Grammar." JRAS 1905, pp. 111-1292. Soul in Philosophical Discourse I: The Quest for the Intellect (The intellect as the best part of the soul: the legacy of Greek philosophers Man as "rational animal" The intellect as the true self: Platonic and Aristotelian views Cultivating the intellect Sa'adya gaon on belief as intellectual attitude Replacing mythology with abstract thought Replacing natural language with conceptual language God as an abstract concept Soul as an abstract concept Ruah, nefesh, neshama: from biblical vocabulary to scientific terminology)Text: Sa'adya gaon: Book of Beliefs and Opinions, introduction.3. Soul in Philosophical Discourse II: Philosophy as Therapy of the Soul (The Stoic theory of the evolution of psyche soul and free will Philo of Alexandria: Stoic versus Platonic elements "philosophy is the healing of the soul" - reason and free will in Sa'adya gaon Stoic elements in Sa'adya: a materialist theory of soul - Ibn Ezra: fate, astrology, salvation)Text: Sa'adya gaon: Book of Beliefs and Opinions, Chapter Six.4. Soul in Medical Discourse I: Medieval Materialism (Psychic traits determined by humors: Hippocratic and Galenic theories loosing consciousness and loosing mind Sefer Asaf and the medical theory of pneuma heart, brain, and soul in Sefer Asaf Christian spirituality and Jewish medicine: the Nestorian monastic sources of Sefer Asaf Remedies for psychic disorders in medieval medicine)Text: Sefer Asaf,(Korot) 3: 536-537; 541.5. Soul in Philosophical Discourse III: The Neoplatonic ParadigmText: Ibn Ezra on Exodus 23:256. Soul in Medical Discourse II: Moses' Brain (psychic faculties located in the brain The prophet's brain: Ibn Sina's theory of prophecy Active Intellect and creative thought Jewish reception of Ibn Sina Maimonides on Moses' brain Sexuality and intellect Implicit criticism of Mohamed and Islam)Text: Maimonides, GP II, 35-367. Soul in Philosophical Discourse IV: The Maximum of Perfection (Maimonides on the imaginative faculty animal soul versus human soul - interpreting prophetic visions Moses as the best human being ever)Text: Maimonides, GP II, 38-39.8. Soul in Religious Discourse II: The Maimonidean Project (Maimonides' spiritual program: halakha as training for the intellect Making the soul immortal by actualizing the potential intellect Judaism as a religion of the intellect)Text: Maimonides, GP I, 68 and III, 51.9. Soul in Exegetical Discourse I: Allegoric Exegesis and Gender (Philo: biblical stories are allegories of the soul From Philo to Ibn Ezra: the transmission of allegoric exegesis Ibn Ezra and Maimonides on Adam and Eve Adam versus Eve = intellectual versus animal soul renouncing body and sexuality for the sake of intellect who is the snake? Fall of Adam as the descent of the intellect into the body can a woman become a philosopher? Miriam and the "kiss of God")Text: Maimonides, GP II, 30.10. Soul in Exegetical Discourse II: Miracles and SoulsText: Judah ha-Levi, Kuzari 1:31-4311. Soul in Philosophical Discourse V: The Averroeist TraditionText: Sirat, "Pirqei Moshe le-Moshe Narboni," Tarbiz 39 (1970): 287-306.12. Soul in Religious Discourse III: Controversies about AfterlifeText: Maimonides, Treatise on Resurrection

Získané způsobilosti

Familiarity with the outlines of the history of medieval Jewish philosophy. Ability to contextualize and to analyze medieval Jewish philosophical texts in English translation. For advanced students: ability to read, translate and interpret Jewish philosophical texts in Hebrew, Arabic, and Judeo-Arabic.

Literatura

Collette Sirat. (1985). A History of Jewish Philosophy in the Middle Ages. Cambridge. G. Scholem. (1946). Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism. New York. + V závislosti na tématu semináře/Depending on the topic of seminar.

Požadavky

Studenti jsou povinni připravit si na každý seminář doporučenou četbu a aktivně se účastnit seminárních diskusí. Seminář je ukončen zápočtem.

Garant

doc. Tamás Visi, Ph.D., M.A.