Modern Jewish Philosophy

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For the past 350 years, Jewish thinkers have been articulating Judaism in the light of the (ever-developing) modern world-oulook. Familiarity with their ideas can help us in developing those articulations of Judaism that ring true to us on all levels ”scientifically, ethically, religiously/spiritually, and with respect to Jewish authenticity. In this course we will encounter and discuss the Jewish philosophies of Spinoza, Mendelssohn, the 19th-century movements (religious and secular), Buber, Rosenzweig, Kaplan, Heschel, Soloveitchik, and a sampling of more recent thinkers.