Хасдай Крескас против Маймонида: дискуссия о времени в средневековой еврейской философии

Философская мысль. 2018. № 7. С. 18–23.

Prozumentik K. V.

The subject of this research the discussion about time and eternity between the two most prominent Jewish philosopher and theologians of the Middle Ages – Hasdai Crescas versus Moses Maimonides. Special attention is given to the concept of time proposed by Hasdai Crescas in his primary work “Or Adonai” (The Light of the Lord). It is demonstrated that the position of Crescas is largely similar to Neo-Platonic tradition of the interpretation of time (Plotinus, Iamblichus, Damascius), while the views of Maimonides on temporality contain the spirit of Aristotelian physics. The key research method is the hermeneutic approach to analyzing the texts in Ancient Jewish, Ancient Greek and Latin languages, as well as the comparative-historical method. The author comes to a conclusion that the clash of views between Moses Maimonides and Hasdai Crescas regarding the nature of time and eternity is a result of the fundamental disagreements of both thinkers in the question of the divine attributes and relationship between God and mortal plain.

Keywords: темпоральность, temporality, neoplatonism, неоплатонизм, motion, время и вечность, Moses Maimonides, Моисей Маймонид, движение, Jewish thought, еврейская мысль, time and eternity, Hasdai Crescas, Хасдай Крескас