A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy
Author: Isaac Husik
Year: 1916
Keywords: Philosophy, Jewish, Medieval
Source: Project Gutenberg
There is not much room for originality in a historical and expository work of
this kind, particularly as I believe in writing history objectively. I have not
attempted to read into the mediæval thinkers modern ideas that were foreign to
them. I endeavored to interpret their ideas from their own point of view as
determined by their history and environment and the literary sources, religious
and philosophical, under the influence of which they came. I based my book on a
study of the original sources where they were available—and this applies to all
the authors treated with the exception of the two Karaites, Joseph al Basir and
Jeshua ben Judah, where I had to content myself with secondary sources and a
few fragments of the original texts. For the rest I tried to tell my story as
simply as I knew how, and I hope the reader will accept the book in the spirit
in which it is offered—as an objective and not too critical exposition of
Jewish rationalistic thought in the middle ages.
(from the preface)
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