Maimonides Centre
for Advanced Studies

The lecture will consider how far Pyrrhonism might be a viable outlook today. The answer depends in part on what range of issues suspension of judgment might plausibly be generated in today's intellectual climate. On many ethical, religious, and philosophical issues, the prospects seem just as good as in Sextus' day...

Finissage and Panel Discussion: November 19, 2018, 18:00

“Does a sovereign democracy need to symbolically break with its difficult past, or can and should it show, even in its undiluted form, what was and never should be again?” This quote from an article by Dina Dorothea Falbe on the architecture webpage “BauNetz” (2016)...

“Jewish Averroism” is a concept that usually refers to Jewish philosophers from the thirteenth century onwards who philosophised within the context of Averroes’ interpretation of Aristotelian philosophy. At the same time, many of them were committed to Maimonides’ legacy of reconciling philosophical investigation with the...