Maimonides Centre
for Advanced Studies

Date
November 12–14, 2018

“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...

The present study addresses epistemological problems dealing with the question of how to define Jewish philosophy. It explores the relationship between Jewish culture, Greek philosophy, and Greco-Roman thought while advancing a genealogy of wisdom and knowledge. Veltri argues that Jewish scepticism, a philosophical attitude...

Opening: August 27, 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) about the renovation of...