Background
Davidson, Herbert Alan was born on May 25, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Louis Nathan and Ettabelle (Baker) Davidson.
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Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
(The central debate of natural theology among medieval Mus...)
The central debate of natural theology among medieval Muslims and Jews concerned whether or not the world was eternal. Opinions divided sharply on this issue because the outcome bore directly on God's relationship with the world: eternity implies a deity bereft of will, while a world with a beginning leads to the contrasting picture of a deity possessed of will. In this exhaustive study of medieval Islamic and Jewish arguments for eternity, creation, and the existence of God, Herbert Davidson provides a systematic classification of the proofs, analyzes and explains them, and traces their sources in Greek philosophy. Throughout the study, Davidson tries to take into account every argument of a philosophical character, disregarding only those arguments that rest entirely on religious faith or which fall below a minimal level of plausibility.
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Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works By Davidson, Herbert A ( Author ) Paperback 2010
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Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works
(Moses Maimonides (1137/38-1204), scholar, physician, and ...)
Moses Maimonides (1137/38-1204), scholar, physician, and philosopher, was the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. In this magisterial biography, Herbert Davidson provides an exhaustive guide to Maimonides' life and works. After considering Maimonides' upbringing and education, Davidson expounds all of his many writings in exhaustive detail, with separate chapters on rabbinic, philosophical, and medical texts. Moses Maimonides has been recognized as the standard work on a towering figure of Western intellectual history.
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect
(A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of ...)
A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of intellect in the philosophies of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, this book starts by reviewing discussions in Greek and early Arabic philosophy which served as the background for the three Arabic thinkers. Davidson examines the cosmologies and theories of human and active intellect in the three philosophers and covers such subjects as: the emanation of the supernal realm from the First Cause; the emanation of the lower world from the transcendent active intellect; stages of human intellect; illumination of the human intellect by the transcendent active intellect; conjunction of the human intellect with the transcendent active intellect; prophecy; and human immortality. Davidson shows that medieval Jewish philosophers and the Latin Scholastics had differing perceptions of Averroes because they happened to use works belonging to different periods of his philosophic career.
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- Philosophy of Abraham Shalom: A Fifteenth-century Exposition and Defense of Maimonides
- Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy by Herbert A. Davidson (1987-08-06)
- Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy by Herbert A. Davidson (1987-08-06)
Herbert Alan Davidson
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Education
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1953. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1955. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1959.
Career
Lecturer, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1960-1961; assistant professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1961-1966; associate professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1966-1972; professor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1972-1994; professor emeritus, University of California at Los Angeles, since 1994; department chairman near eastern languages and cultures, University of California at Los Angeles, 1984-1991.
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect
(A study of problems, all revolving around the subject of ...)
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Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works
(Moses Maimonides (1137/38-1204), scholar, physician, and ...)
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Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy
(The central debate of natural theology among medieval Mus...)
- Philosophy of Abraham Shalom: A Fifteenth-century Exposition and Defense of Maimonides
- Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy by Herbert A. Davidson (1987-08-06)
- Proofs for Eternity, Creation and the Existence of God in Medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy by Herbert A. Davidson (1987-08-06)
- Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works By Davidson, Herbert A ( Author ) Paperback 2010
- (Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works ) Author: Herbert A. Davidson Jan-2005
- (Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works ) Author: Herbert A. Davidson Aug-2010
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Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes, on Intellect: Their Cosmologies, Theories of the Active Intellect, and Theories of Human Intellect
Connections
Married Kinneret Bernstein. Children: Rachel and Jessica.
