@Book{1788677447,
author="Halper, Yehuda",
title="Jewish Socratic questions in an age without Plato: permitting and forbidding open-inquiry in 12-15th century Europe and North Africa",
series="Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Vol. 1",
year="2021",
publisher="Brill",
address="Leiden",
keywords="Influence; Philosophy, Ancient; Jewish philosophy; History; Jews; Civilization; Greek influences; Judaism and philosophy",
abstract="Was Socrates a wise, ascetic monotheist or a vocal sceptic? --  Socrates and Socratic philosophy in Judah Halevi's Kuzari --  Socratic scepticisim and the problem of Akrasia according to Averroes --  Does Maimonides's Mishneh Torah forbid reading the Guide of the Perplexed ? On Platonic punishments for  freethinkers --  Keep your sons from logic --  The sex life of metaphysical sceptic : Platonic themes in Gersonides's commentary on the Song of Songs --  Philosophical allegory in Bibago : exegetical duplicity for the sake of open inquiry.",
note="by Yehuda Halper",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9789004468764",
doi="10.1163/9789004468764",
url="https://brill.com/abstract/title/59627",
url="https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9789004448735.pdf",
url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468764",
language="English"
}