Time matters : time, creation, and cosmology in medieval Jewish philosophy / T.M. Rudavsky.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-275) and index.

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Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Illustration -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Time and Cosmology in Athens and Jerusalem -- Introduction -- Biblical Conceptions of Time -- Rabbinical Models of Time and Creation -- Time, Order, and Creation in the Greek Philosophical Tradition -- Ancient Greek Astronomy and Cosmology -- Plotinus and the Neoplatonist Tradition -- Conclusion -- Time, Creation, and Cosmology -- Introduction -- Astronomy and Cosmology: The True Perplexity Revealed -- Creation Models in Maimonides.

Creation, Time, and the Instant in Gersonides -- Creation, Time, and Duration in Crescas -- Scripture, Philosophy, and the First Instant of Creation -- Conclusion -- Time, Motion, and the Instant: Jewish Philosophers Confront Zeno -- Introduction -- Traversing the Infinite: Zeno, Aristotle, and John Philoponus -- Jewish Neoplatonic Considerations of Infinite Divisibility -- Meeting the Kalam Challenge: Kalam Atomism Described -- Rejection of Kalam Atomism: Saadia Gaon, Halevi, Ibn Daud, and Maimonides -- Gersonides on the Continuum -- Crescas on Infinity, Space, and the Vacuum -- Conclusion.

Temporality, Human Freedom, and Divine Omniscience -- Introduction -- The Problem Defined: Aristotle's Sea-Fight Paradox -- Astrological Determinism and Human Freedom -- Maimonides' Compatibilism -- Incompatibilist Response of Ibn Daud -- Omni science and Human Freedom in Gersonides -- Indeterminism and Prophecy -- The Challenge of Determinism: Crescas on T)ivine Knowledge and Possibility -- Conclusion -- Prelude to Modernity -- Introduction -- Newton and His Philosophical Precursors -- Spinoza's Metaphysical Monism -- Time, Duration, and Creation: Spinoza and Descartes Compared.

Substance, Infinity, and Divisibility in Spinoza -- The Role Played by Imagination -- Spinoza on Divine Omniscience and Contingency -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- Conclusion: Eternity a parte post, Individuation, and Immortality -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Back Cover.

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