What Is Jewish Philosophy? From Definitions To Historical Context
What Is Jewish Philosophy? From Definitions To Historical Context

Summary/Abstract: This article re-examines the fundamentals of Jewish philosophy, attempting to understand its place in light of general philosophy and religious philosophy. It describes how Jewish philosophy was born out of the meeting between Middle-Eastern culture and the West, establishes three time periods for Jewish philosophy, and explains how these time periods have changed in the modern period as scientific thought and post-modernism took over the traditional role of philosophy. The article discusses as well the three categories which encompass the arena of Jewish thought. Periodically there are attempts to discuss the meaning of Jewish philosophy but rarely do these discussions go back to the fundamentals and assess what has taken place over the past 2200 years since the first treatise of Jewish philosophy was written just after the Greek conquest. The article is the first chapter of a book which Dr. Shuchat is preparing on Jewish Philosophy entitled “Jewish Faith in a Changing World”.

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