This podcast episode launches David Solomon’s eight-part series on Jewish Philosophy. In this first lecture, David explores the earliest Jewish responses to the ancient Greek philosophers.
Beginning by providing a summary of the early Greek philosophers, David defines Jewish Philosophy and how it fits within the overriding framework of Judaism.
Watch the lecture here.
He examines the life and ideas of Philo of Alexandria. Philo’s extensive philosophical writing looked at, among other things:
- Stoic allegory, which includes a commentary on the Book of Genesis (Bereishit) and an exploration of Middle-Platonism
- Logos and its relationship to humanity and the Divine
- Responding to Platonimism and the stoics
- The importance of the revealed tradition of the Torah
- Ethics, including Moses as a fully realised individual.
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