%0 Book %T Jewish Socratic questions in an age without Plato: permitting and forbidding open-inquiry in 12-15th century Europe and North Africa %A Halper, Yehuda %S Maimonides Library for Philosophy and Religion Vol. 1 %D 2021 %I Brill %C Leiden %@ 9789004468764 %G English %F 1788677447 %O by Yehuda Halper %O Includes bibliographical references and index %X 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. %L 0 %K Influence %K Philosophy, Ancient %K Jewish philosophy %K History %K Jews %K Civilization %K Greek influences %K Judaism and philosophy %9 Text %R 10.1163/9789004468764 %U https://brill.com/abstract/title/59627 %U https://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9789004448735.pdf %U https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004468764