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This course offers a survey of major philosophical formulations
of the unique nature and role of Jews and Judaism by Jewish
thinkers such as Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, Judah Loew
of Prague, Moses Mendelssohn, and Martin Buber."
The orientation of this course is to follow a chronological/historical/
biographical approach in an attempt to answer four seminal
questions: (1) What were the issues with which this particular
philosopher was concerned? (2) What were his resolutions of
those issues? (3) What was their impact and/or relevance,
if any, to the Jewish community of his day? And (4) What was/is
their impact and/or relevance to the contemporary Jewish weltanshauung
("worldview") and situation, if any, of our own
day?
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