JWST208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jewish Philosophy, Maimonides, Blessed Be
31 Aug 2016
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What does philosophy mean: love of wisdom. Why are philosophical questions different from scientific questions: they"re more abstract. Philosophical questions can have many answers, instead of one concrete solution. Would we have ended up in the same situation: my view: factors influence free choice and can limit the extent of free choice, but god doesn"t force us into any concrete situations. Ex: abusive parents may force kids into majors they don"t want to go into, and poverty-ridden neighborhoods have higher levels of incarceration. You have to take more effort to escape these situations to make the choices for yourself, but you still have control over those choices: jewish philosophy viewpoint: He, knows everything that will happen before it has happened . The holy one, blessed be he, knows all creations and events. Know without doubt that people do what they want without the. Holy one, blessed be he, forcing or decreeing upon them to do so .
