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HoP 343 - As Far as East from West - Jewish Philosophy in Renaissance Italy

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Origins of Aristotelian Philosophy

Elijah del Medigo wrote treatises inspired by or commenting on Averuis' philosophy. The influx of Jews from Iberian Peninsula brought the mystical tradition known as Kabbalah to Italian soil. As a hard-nosed rationalist, Deonmedigo was bound to find KabbalAH distasteful. But he also thinks that there are some truths found in Scripture that human reason cannot discover.

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