By Mauro Zonta
ISBN-10: 1402037155
ISBN-13: 9781402037153
ISBN-10: 1402037163
ISBN-13: 9781402037160
In their pursuit of a renewal of Jewish philosophy, a few students energetic in Spain and Italy within the moment half the 15th century (Abraham Bibago, Baruch Ibn Ya‘ish, Abraham Shalom, Eli Habillo, Judah Messer Leon) became to the doctrines and strategies of latest Latin Scholasticism. those philosophers, who learn Latin rather well, have been inspired through the theories formulated by way of their Latin colleagues (Albert the good, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, John Duns Scotus and their followers). They composed unique works in Hebrew (mainly commentaries and questions about Aristotle), during which they faithfully reproduced the concepts and terminology of past due Scholasticism, and explicitly quoted and mentioned Scholastic texts and doctrines approximately common sense, physics, metaphysics and ethics.
Thus, in 15th century Italy and Spain there got here into being what we may possibly name a "Hebrew Scholasticism": Jewish authors composed philosophical treatises within which they mentioned an identical questions and used an identical tools as modern Christian Schoolmen. those thinkers weren't easily prompted through Scholasticism: they have been actual Schoolmen who attempted to take part (in a distinct language) within the philosophical debate of up to date Europe.
A background of "Hebrew Scholasticism" within the 15th century is but to be written. lots of the resources themselves stay unpublished, and their contents and dating to Latin resources haven't but been studied intimately. what's wanted is to offer, edit, translate and touch upon the most major texts of "Hebrew Scholasticism", in order that students can reach a extra specific inspiration of its volume and character.
This booklet goals to reply to this desire. After a ancient advent, the place a "state of the artwork" approximately learn at the courting among Jewish philosophy and technological know-how and Latin Scholasticism within the thirtheenth-fifteenth centuries is given, the booklet contains 4 chapters. each one of them deals a basic bio-bibliographical survey of 1 or key-authors of fifteenth-century "Hebrew Scholasticism", by way of English translations of a few in their most vital "Scholastic" works or of a few components of them: Abraham Bibago’s "Treatise at the Plurality of Forms", Baruch Ibn Ya’ish’s commentaries on Aristotle’s "Nicomachean Ethics" and "De anima", Eli Habillo’s advent to Antonius Andreas’s observation at the "Metaphysics", Judah Messer Leon’s observation on Aristotle’s "Physics" and questions about Porphyry’s "Isagoge". The Hebrew part contains severe versions of a few of the translated texts, and a Latin-Hebrew thesaurus of technical phrases of Scholasticism.
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51v, ll. ) “that prime matter and privation are the same thing”; C. on ff. 52r–53v, what seems to be the beginning of a Scholastic quaestio “whether the universal is found outside of mind in individuals”, containing only the exposition of thirteen negative arguments by William Ockham (f. 52r–v) and twenty positive arguments by Duns Scotus (f. 53r–v); 10. surot): on this work, see below; 11. Treatise on the Quiddity of the Soul (Ma’amar be-mahut ha-nefesh), now lost;22 12. tiv‘it ve-siklit lehitqarev ’el ha-Shem);23 21 The only direct reference to Scholasticism in this work (a mention of Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of the unity of form in the substrate) is on f.
Cf. M. , Universit`a di Torino 1995, p. 39∗ note 171. It should be noted that copies of Bibago’s commentaries on Averroes on the Metaphysics and on the Posterior Analytics were found among the manuscripts of the Italian humanist and hebraist Domenico Cardinal Grimani (d. 1520): see G. Tamani, I libri ebraici del cardinal Domenico Grimani, “Annali di Ca’ Foscari” 34 (1995), 5–52, pp. 32–33, numbers 120 and 128. 14 See Steinschneider, Abraham Bibago, pp. 127–137 (cf. Steinschneider, ¨ Hebraeischen Ubersetzungen, pp.
Linguistic accuracy, even to the extent of the Hebrew syntax mirroring the Latin; the adoption of new Hebrew philosophical terms, or new meanings for old ones that better capture the Latin”. 111 See Zonta, The Relationship, pp. 152–153. 112 On Judah Messer Leon as a “Hebrew Schoolman”, see the sketch in TiroshRothschild, Jewish Philosophy, pp. 514–515; Manekin, Scholastic Logic, pp. 137–138 (where he is defined as “a scholastic logician writing in Hebrew”); see also below, chapter 4. introduction 27 his successor, Gaetano de Thiene (1387-1465).
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