Research on Jewish philosophical scepticism is still in its very beginning stages. This also holds true for cultural expressions of scepticism, i.e. modes of sceptical strategies present in Jewish literature, cultural practices, history, the organization of social groups, and especially education. This lack of interest in the intricacies of Jewish scepticism in Jewish studies may be rooted in the modality of Jewish philosophy as such, it’s being notoriously in-between, subsuming traditional wisdom, philosophy, theology, Jewish and general Weltanschauung, as well as cultural history, and representing a hazardous bridge between orthopraxy and orthodoxy. In this panel we would like to investigate the controversial binomial of Jewish scepticism under a philosophical perspective.
- Chair:
Libera Pisano (Universität Hamburg, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies-Jewish Scepticism)
Panelists:
- Giuseppe Veltri (Universität Hamburg) - Short introduction
- Yoav Meyrav (Universität Hamburg, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies-Jewish Scepticism) - The danger of perplexity: a Farabian problem—and a Maimonidean solution?
- Michela Torbidoni (Universität Hamburg, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies-Jewish Scepticism) - The sceptical Socrates of Simone Luzzatto between Reason and Revelation
- Jose Maria Sanchez De Leon Serrano (Universität Hamburg, Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies-Jewish Scepticism) - God’s transparency and hyperbolic doubt in Spinoza’s Metaphysics
Language: English
