Maimonides is compared with Arab philosophers, and Sa'adia Gaon is compared with the Kalam. Kabala and Hassidic thought. Courses cover such subjects as the problem of evil, man and his place in the world, the soul, the Torah and the Mizvot. Modern Jewish philosophy begins with Spinoza and covers the major Jewish philosophers as Moses Mendelssohn, Nachman Krochmal, Steinheim, Hermann Cohen, Rav Kook, Franz Rozenzweig, Martin Buber, Heschel, Gordon, Soloveitchik and others. Their writings are compared to such non-Jewish philosophers as Kant and Hegel.
Special courses cover Zionist thought.
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