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Wednesday, December 25 • 10:40 - 11:40
Everything you didn't know you wanted to know about medieval Jewish philosophy: what is free will and is it worth having? (4 of 4)

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Freewill is thought to be necessary for the very idea of a mitzvah to make sense. The problem is that it's not clear that the notion of freewill itself makes sense. Medieval thinkers from Saadia Gaon to Hasdai Crescas struggled mightily with this question and came to some surprising conclusions as we will discover in this session.
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Daniel Rynhold

Bernard Revel Graduate School, Yeshiva University
Daniel is associate professor in modern Jewish philosophy at Yeshiva University (New York). He is the author of 'Two Models of Jewish Philosophy' (2005), 'An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Philosophy' (2009), and co-editor of 'Radical Responsibility: Celebrating the Thought of Chief... Read More →

Wednesday December 25, 2013 10:40 - 11:40 GMT
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