DiscoverJewish Philosophy PodcastMaimonides' Negative Theology and Wittgenstein with Rabbi Dr. Samuel Lebens
Maimonides' Negative Theology and Wittgenstein with Rabbi Dr. Samuel Lebens

Maimonides' Negative Theology and Wittgenstein with Rabbi Dr. Samuel Lebens

Update: 2021-05-20
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In this podcast Rabbi Dr. Lebens explains how different ways of reading Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can help us understand an important paradox that seems to be at play in Maimonides’ negative theology.


Rabbi Dr. Samuel Lebens is a research fellow in the philosophy department at the University of Haifa, and a dynamic Jewish educator. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Birkbeck College (University of London), and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Notre Dame and Rutgers. He is also an ordained Orthodox Rabbi, having studied at various Israeli Rabbinical schools (Yeshivat Hakotel, Yeshivat Hamivtar, and Yeshivat Har Etzion).

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Maimonides' Negative Theology and Wittgenstein with Rabbi Dr. Samuel Lebens

Maimonides' Negative Theology and Wittgenstein with Rabbi Dr. Samuel Lebens

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