Shlomo Pines (1908 – 1990) schreef over Spinoza en Maimonides

Historian of philosophy and science. Born in Paris, Pines taught at the Institut d’Histoire des Sciences et des Techniques de l’Université de Paris from 1937 to 1939. He settled in Ereẓ Israel in 1940.

From 1948 to 1956 he served in the Middle East division of the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs. In 1952 he began teaching at the Hebrew University and in 1961 Pines became professor of general and Jewish philosophy. He was a fellow of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and in 1968 received the Israel Prize. He served as coeditor of the Corpus Commentariorum Averrois in Aristotelem of the Medieval Academy of America. The 20^th volume of the philosophic journal Lyyun (1969) was dedicated to him on the occasion of his 60^th birthday.

Pines wrote in the fields of Islamic philosophy and science, the Greek antecedents of Islamic philosophy and science, and Jewish philosophy. In his first book, Beitraege zur islamischen Atomenlehre (1936), he analyzed the atomic theories of the Muslim theologians. He wrote several detailed analyses of the thought of Abu al Barakāt ben Ali al-Baghdādī, Hibat Allah, a hitherto barely known critic of Islamic Aristotelianism.

In the field of Jewish philosophy he published a new English translation of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed (1963) with an introduction tracing Maimonides’ philosophic sources. In his Scholasticism after Tomas Aquinas and the Teachings of Hasdai Crescas and his Predecessors (1967) he proposed the thesis that late medieval Jewish philosophers, such as Levi b. Gershom, Jedaiah b. Abraham Bedersi (ha-Penini), and Ḥasdai Crescas, were familiar with the philosophic and scientific doctrines of the late medieval Christian Scholastics. In “Spinoza’s Tractatus Teologico-Politicus, Maimonides, and Kant” (in: Scripta Hierosolymitana, 20 (1968), 3-54) he discusses the interrelation of Maimonides and Spinoza. He also published A New Fragment of Xenocrates (1961).
[Lemma PINES, SHLOMO (Solomon, 1908 – 1990) by Yehuda Landau & Arthur Hyman in de Encyclopedia Judaica, Second Edition, Vol 16, p. 167 - cf.]
 

Ik vul dit en de en.wikipedia-pagina over Shlomo Pines aan met het gegeven dat hij z’n doctorsbull (Ph.D.) in 1934 behaalde aan de Universiteit van Berlijn [cf.]. De Duitse Spinoza Bibliografie laat zien dat hij meermalen over Spinoza schreef. Ik meld alleen dat de Shlomo Pines Society op zijn naam een academia.edu-pagina heeft geopend om zijn werk verder toegankelijk te maken. Aldaar is bovenstaande biografie van hem te vinden die eindigt met “In “Spinoza’s Tractatus Teologico-Politicus, Maimonides, and Kant” he discusses the interrelation of Maimonides and Spinoza.” Dat artikel wordt daar verspreid.

Postuum is nog van hem uit het Hebreeuws vertaald:

Shlomo Pines, La liberté de philosopher: de Maïmonide à Spinoza. Traduction, introduction et notes par Rémi Brague; avec collaboration de R. Bouveresse-Quillot et G. Haddad. Paris: Desclée De Brouwer, 21 novembre 1997 - 484 pp [cover van hier]


Shlomo Pines, Le metamorfosi della libertà. Tra Atene e Gerusalemme. Milano: Messinissa libri [Neri Pozza], 2015

 

[Zijn foto van hier]