
HoP 156 - Sarah Pessin on Jewish Neoplatonism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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The Differences Between Creation-Based Religion and Emanation-Based Metaphysics
The idea would be if you're committed to this metaphorical, non-literal reading of both the opatonic literature on the one hand and biblical literature on the other. But it still seems like there must be philosophical doctrinal issues where the two belief systems would come into tension,. So the obvious one I suppose is the contrast between a creation-based religion and an emanation-based metaphysics in neoplatonism. Do the Jewish neoplatonists not see that as a problem?
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