The digital police state: Fichte’s revenge on Hegel/ Slavoj Žižek ............................. Personal or impersonal knowledge? / Susan Haack …………………………...……. Heidegger never got beyond facticity/ Thomas Sheehan ……………...…….……… Our confrontation with tragedy/ Simon Critchley …….…..…………...…......…..… On the permissible use of force in a Kantian dignitarian moral and political setting, or, Seven Kantian Samurai/ Robert Hanna, Otto Paans………...…………… Self-, social-, or neural-determination/ Lawrence Cahoone……....................……… Important aspects of Edmund Husserl’s phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy that could not be known through Husserl’s own publications during his lifetime/ Iso Kern………………………………………………………..………… Heidegger’s Socrates: “pure thinking” on method, truth, and learning/ James M. Magrini ………………………………………………...………………………..…….. Intuition as a capacity for a priori knowledge/ Henry W. Pickford…………….….. The absence of self: an existential phenomenological view of the Anatman experience/Rudolph Bauer…………………………………………………….…...…. Genetic engineering, artificial intelligence, and natural man: an existential inquiry into being and rights/ Anthony Asekhauno …………………………....…… Heidegger in Iran: a historical experience report/Bijan Abdolkarimi ………….…. The priority of literature to philosophy in Richard Rorty/Muhammad Asghari..… An argument in defense of voluntary euthanasia/Hossein Atrak………………...… Existential anxiety and time perception: an empirical examination of Heideggerian philosophical concepts towards clinical practice/ Alireza Farnam, Samira Zeynali, Mohammad Ali Nazari, Prinaz Vahid Vahdat, Masumeh Zamanlu ……………………………………………………………………….………………… Plantinga on divine foreknowledge and free will/Abdurrazzaq Hesamifar……..….. Language and philosophy: an analysis of the turn to "subject" in modern philosophy with historical linguistic approach/Ahmad Hosseini ….……….……… Divine foreknowledge and human moral responsibility (in defense of muslim philosophers’ approach)/Tavakkol Kuhi Giglou, Seyed Ebrahim Aghazadeh………………………………………………...…………………..……….. "Autrui" selon Lévinas et Blanchot/ Maryam Mesbahi, Mohammad Hossein Djavari, Allahshokr Assadollahi Tejaragh ………………………………...…….…… Language, gender and subjectivity from Judith Butler’s perspective/ Massoud Yaghoubi-Notash, Vahid Nejad Mohammad, Mahmoud Soufiani……….………...…

Editorial: Memory, Mimesis, Meaning <strong>3</strong> <strong>Victor Ferrao</strong> <strong> 7</strong><br> The Touch of a Text: Promoting Healing and Compassion <strong>Ejekiel Lakra </strong><strong>13</strong><br> Freud on God and Religion as the<br> Sublimation of Unconscious Mind <strong>Thomas V Mathew </strong><strong>24</strong><br> Platonic and Aristotelian Views on Body-Soul Relationship:<br> A Comparative Approach <strong>Anmol Bara </strong><strong>44 </strong> Ambedkar's Philosophy against Degradation<br> of the Human Dignity <strong>P.S. Beskilin Sebastin</strong><strong> 55</strong> Samskaras: Their Significance and Benefits

The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles that seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies. Contributions to the Review place special thematic emphasis on scepticism within Jewish thought and its links to other religious traditions and secular worldviews. The Review is interested in the tension at the heart of matters of reason and faith, rationalism and mysticism, theory and practice, narrativity and normativity, doubt and dogma. Jeremy Phillip Brown, "What Does the Messiah Know? A Prelude to Kabbalah’s Trinity Complex" Libera Pisano, “'The Last German Jew': A Perspectival Reading of Franz Rosenzweig’s Dual Identity through His Collection at the Leo Baeck Institute" Jeffrey G. Amshalem, “'The Divine Philosopher': Rebbe Pinhas of Korets’s Kabbalah as Natural Philosophy" Maria Vittoria Comacchi, "Questioning Traditions Readings of Annius of Viterbo’s Antiquitates in the Cinquecento: The Case of Judah Abarbanel" Jonatan Meir, "'Bordering Two Worlds': Hillel Zeitlin’s Spiritual Diary" Rebecca Kneller-Rowe, "Scepticism in Samuel Ibn Tibbon’s Commentary on Ecclesiastes (Peruš Qohelet)" Isaac Slater, "The Forgotten Branch Mediators of Philosophical Knowledge in Eastern European Jewish Thought" Michela Torbidoni, "Spinoza’s Moral Scepticism An Overview of Giuseppe Rensi’s Interpretation" Guido Bartolucci, "Mobility and Creativity David de’ Pomis and the Place of the Jews in Renaissance Italy" Tamir Karkason, "The Language of Truth The Śefat Emet Association (Salonica 1890) and Its Taqqanot (Bylaws)"

The academic study of kabbalah is a new field, growing by leaps and bounds. Because kabbalah has literary, historical, ritual, cognitive, and experiential dimensions, it crosses many disciplinary and methodological lines. The discipline must therefore graduate from its initial focus on the textual. The roundtable aims re-examine methodologies for its study. We will ask four key questions: First, How do we define the disciplinary domain of kabbalah? Second, What are the most pressing questions in the study of kabbalah? Third, have we adopted new theories or methodologies in recent years? If so why? Fourth, What are the advantages and disadvantages of your theoretical and methodological approach to the study of kabbalah? Fifth, what comes next? To reach this goal the panel will be comprised of scholars representing different approaches. Hartley Lachter will discuss kabbalistic texts whose provenance is already established. He asserts the importance of social context to their meaning. Ronit Meroz, on the other hand, emphasizes the value of literary analysis not only for its intrinsic value but also as a means for deciphering the archeology of the text and its different historical strata. Vadim Putzu will draw from the burgeoning developments in the scientific study of the human mind, brain, and psyche, to discuss how the findings and methodologies of neurocognitive and psychiatric research may contribute to a better understanding of Jewish mystical practices and experiences to place its study within broader scholarly conversations in the fields of comparative religion, Religious Studies, and beyond. Pinchas Giller will explore the role of technology in the current practice and study of kabbalah, which opens new possibilities for both scholars and practitioners. Marla Segol will discuss the importance of new approaches to understanding gender, embodiment and sexuality beyond French feminism, grounded in the mythology and the scientific lore of the period, and understood through the various lenses of queer theory. Moderator Ginsburg, given his research using many of these methodologies, will aim to focus the discussion on how the above issues impact specifically on the contemporary study of kabbalah, and how they should shape it in the future.

Abstract: This paper is based on the transcription of the lecture “Introdução aopensamento de Abraham Cohen de Herrera” (“Introduction to the thinking of AbrahamCohen de Herrera”), given at the II SinaCripto, at UFS/São Cristóvão-Brazil between the 19th and the 21st of June, 2017. Our original aim was to discuss some features of Abraham Cohen de Herrera’s Puerta del Cielo (c. 1570 – c. 1635); but, as soon as we started looking for secondary bibliography, we have noted that there are many issues surrounding, as a background, the production of Herrera’s above mentioned work. On the other hand, some of these issues – as, for example, the strict endogeny of Kabbalah, the transmission of Jewish Mystic Literature, the oblivion of Jewish philosophers in the narratives of the history of philosophy – do not concern only to Herrera’s works and life, but can be found in other instances related to the History of the Jewish Thought. So, we changed our original focus and, instead of talking only on Herrera’s work, we tried to trace back the origins and perenniality of those above mentioned issues. Keywords: History of Jewish Thought. Metahistory of Philosophy. Jewish Mysticism. Kabbalah. Abraham Cohen de Herrera.

Abastrcts: Journal of Philosophical Investigations (Current Issue. Volume 11, Issue 20, summer 2017, Page 1-325) Deapartment of Philosophy University of Tabriz Tabriz city Iran