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In most of the current reflections on the relation between philosophy and society, it is somehow taken for granted that philosophy always possessed political or social status. According to F arabi…
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Leo Strauss
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Chicago, United States of America
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1952
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Of all religious phenomena, there are few which, even when considered merely from the outside, give such an immediate impression of life, richness and complexity as…
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Marcel Mauss
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
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1909
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Chapter XIII. Judaism
The explanation is simple. People love in others the qualities they would like to have but do not actually have in any great degree; so also we hate in others only what we do not…
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Otto Weininger
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1903
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Jewish thought, having always been in a vital relation to Christian scholarship—sometimes, as in scholasticism, the influencing part, sometimes, as in the 19th century, the influenced part—has…
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Franz Rosenzweig
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1914
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Having with fervent desire sought to reflect on the meaning of our sacred scriptures according to their original and true meaning—since, being the word of God, in this lies all of…
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Jacob Judah Leon Templo
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1671
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Today in Germany it seems Jewish assimilation must declare its bankruptcy. The general social antisemitism and its official legitimation affects in the first instance assimilated Jews, who can no…
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Hannah Arendt
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1933
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During the thousands of years of its history, Judaism has learned and experienced a good deal. In its people the commanding urge to think further, to struggle with ideas, has…
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Leo Baeck
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1922
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A member of the Greek Church, once addressed me in the following words:—“Do you know wherefore you have no longer a king of your own people? It is because you have rejected the faith of…
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Isaac Troki
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1593
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In this chapter, the prophet speaks mainly of life and spiritual death, and your scholars concede this, as is seen in Nicolão de Lira’s exposition on the same chapter. And thus, you await greater…
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Elijah Montalto
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Livorno, Duchy of Tuscany (Livorno, Italy)
Venice, Republic of Venice
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Early 17th Century
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I am very much astonished at all the writers who have argued with the wise men of the Christians, and who have recorded their arguments in books. I have not found within them a decisive…
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Joshua Segre
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Scandiano, Duchy of Modena (Scandiano, Italy)
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1733