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Maimonides on Prophecy: Synthesis and Reconciliation
11 November 2019
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We would like to invite you to a Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism on Monday, November 11, 2019, at 18:00. FU Youde (Shandong University) will talk about "Maimonides on Prophecy: Synthesis and Reconciliation."
Maimonides on Prophecy: Synthesis and Reconiciliation
Abstract
The lecture will introduce and analyse Maimonides’s theory of prophecy, with reference to the following aspects: previous and contemporaneous approaches to prophecy; the human qualifications needed for being a prophet; the process of actualising a prophecy; and the degrees of prophets. It will be argued that in several respects, Maimonides’s methodological approach is not “either/or,” but rather “both/and”: (1) both God and the human being play a role in the formation of prophecy; (2) both the intellect and the imagination function in the process of prophesying; and (3) both Aristotelian and Neoplatonic elements are instrumental in the shaping of Maimonides’s theory of prophecy.
FU Youde is the director of the Center for Judaic and Inter-Religious Studies at Shandong University in Jinan/China.
Date
November 11, 2019
Venue
Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies
Schlüterstraße 51/5th floor
Seminar Room 5060
20146 Hamburg
Poster
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