Isaac Albalag

Albalag Isaac ( Isaac al - Ballag ) was a Jewish philosopher of the 13th century in southern France or northern Spain.

Albalag was a radical proponent of Jewish Averroism and distinguished as such between the feasible only for an elite philosophical path of knowledge or intended for the masses religious revelation. Ultimately, consistent philosophy and religion. The philosopher reaches philosophical way to the knowledge of the truth and then interprets the revealed scriptures of the religion symbolically in such a way that he in turn finds the philosophical truth in them.

He translated al - Gazalis " maqasid al - falasifa " into Hebrew, is to find his digressions " Tiqqun ha - De'ot " ( " correction of findings ", ie an attempt at refutation of al - Ghazali ).

Albalag was in theological circles from the outset as obstinate heretics and dangerous rationalist.