5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Lithuanian-French philosopher who transformed phenomenology into an ethics of radical responsibility — arguing that the encounter with the face of the Other is the primary ethical event and the basis of all philosophy.
Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) was a 12th-century Sephardic rabbi, philosopher, and physician who synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish law and theology.
Medieval Jewish philosopher, rabbi, and physician who synthesized Aristotelian philosophy with Jewish theology — the most influential Jewish thinker since the biblical period.
German-Jewish Enlightenment philosopher who argued for religious toleration and the separation of church and state from within the Jewish tradition, and defended rationalist metaphysics including the immortality of the soul.
American historian of early modern philosophy who wrote the standard Spinoza biography and has contributed to understanding occasionalism and Jewish philosophy.