Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera

Shem Tov ben Joseph ibn Falaquera (* 1225, † 1295 ), also written Palquera (Hebrew: שם טוב בן יוסף אבן פלקירה ) was a ( presumably) Spanish philosopher and poet. He was trained in Arabic and Greek philosophy. On the one hand he worked on the education of philosophy and science, on the other hand of Jewish thought and understanding of Scripture, which led him to popularizing the philosophy and partly to their criticism. In Maimonidesstreit he supported Maimonides and wrote an open letter in defense of his guide for the Perplexed ( see below).

Works

  • Iggeret Hanhagat ha - Guf we ha - Nefesh, deals with the control of body and mind.
  • Zeri ha - Jagon, acts of resignation and unhappiness. Output Cremona, 1550.
  • Iggeret ha - Wikkuaḥ, a dialogue between an orthodox Jew and a philosopher about the harmony of philosophy and religion, trying to show that the Bible and Talmud exactly match the philosophy. Output Prague 1810. Translated into Latin. Output Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS. Latin, no. 6691A. Output Vienna in 1875 ( digitized: 1st, 2nd
  • Reshit hokhmah, acts of moral obligations and are the " ethical letter " of Aristotle again, also from the sciences and the necessity of studying philosophy. Shem Tov treated particularly the thinking of Aristotle and Plato. Translated into Latin. Output Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, MS. Latin, no. 6691A.
  • Sefer ha - Ma'alot, treated the different degrees of human perfection. Publication by L. Venetians in 1891. ( Digitized: 1, 2 )
  • Ha - Mebaḳḳesh, partly in rhymed dialogue form treated human knowledge. A revision of Reshit hokhmah. Erstdruck Krakow 1646. Edition by H. Levine, The Book of the Seeker ( Sefer ha - Mebaqqesh ) by Shem Tob ben Joseph Ibn Falaquera, New York 1976.
  • Sefer ha - Nefesh, a psychological treatise in the School of Arab Aristotelians (with its Neoplatonic impact ), especially Avicenna. Output Brody 1835 ( digitized ); Warsaw 1924 ( digitized ).
  • More ha - More, a commentary on the philosophical parts of the More Nevukhim ( Guide for the Perplexed Perplexed or orientation or lots) of Maimonides, with an appendix, which corrects the Hebrew translation of Samuel ibn Tibbon of More. Output Pressburg 1837 ( digitized: 1, 2 ). . Edition and commentary by Yair Schiffman ( Sources for the Study of Jewish Culture ), Jerusalem 2002, ISBN 965-90148-5-6
  • Letter in defense of the More Nevukhim against the attacks of various va French rabbi; published in the Minḥat Ḳena'ot. Output Pressburg in 1838.
  • Extracts from Ibn Gabirol Mekor Ḥayyim, edited by Solomon Munk in his Mélanges de Juive et Arabe philosophy, Paris, 1859.
  • De'ot ha - Philosophim, the physics and metaphysics of Aristotle contains according to the interpretations of Averroes, as M. Steinschneider, Cat. Heb. MSS. Leyden, no. 20
  • Iggeret ha - Musar, a collection of ethical maxims ( cf. Orient, Lit 1879, p. 79).
  • Megillat ha - Zikkaron, a non- traditional historiographical work that is cited in Mebaḳḳesh.
  • Iggeret ha - halom, a treatise on dreams, mentioned in More ha -More, iii., Ch. 19, p. 131

Secondary literature

  • Salomon Munk, Mélanges de Philosophie Juive et Arabe, pp. 494-496
  • Ernest Renan, Averroès et l' Averroïsme, pp. 183, 187
  • David Kaufmann, Solomon ibn Gabirol studies on 1899, pp. 1-3
  • Moritz Steinschneider, Catalogus Librorum in Bibliotheca Hebraeorum Bodleian cols. 2537-2548
  • Trans., Hebrew translations, pp. 8, 18, 37, 356, 380, 422
  • Moritz Güdemann, The Jewish Education, i 155-157
  • Mattityahu Strashun, Pirḥe Zafon, i 46
  • L. Venetians, Semtob ibn Fala KERA in: Magyar Zsido Szemle, 1890, viii. 74-82, 144-155
  • Angel Sáenz - Badillos; Judit Targarona Borrás: Diccionario de autores judios ( Sefarad. Siglos X - XV). Estudios de Cultura Hebrea 10 Cordoba 1988, pp. 101-103.
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