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SUMMARY:Hermann Cohen’s "Ethics of Maimonides"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s Ethics of Maimonides. Below please find the draft schedule. \nProgram\nMonday\, June 9\, 2025\n9:30-9:45am – Greetings \n9:45-10:45am – Frederick Beiser (Syracuse University) \n“Cohen and Maimonides and the Rationalist Tradition in Theology” \nChair: Robert Gibbs (University of Toronto) \n10:45-11:00am – Break \n11:00-12:00am – Shira Billet (Jewish Theological Seminary) \n“Maimonides on Eudaimonia and the Virtue of Humility in Hermann Cohen’s Ethics\, Politics\, and Philosophy of Judaism” \nChair: Sol Goldberg (University of Toronto) \n12:00-1:30pm – Lunch (kosher with vegetarian options) \n1:30-2:30pm – Martin Pinckney (University of Toronto) \n“In Beauty’s Absence: On the Role of Privation in Cohen’s Aesthetics” \nChair: Sarah Tropper (University of Toronto) \n2:30-2:45pm – Break \n2:45-3:45pm – Michael Rosenthal (University of Toronto) \n“The Trouble with Transcendence:  Three Problems for Cohen’s Arguments in the Ethics of Maimonides” \nChair: Ori Werdiger (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) \n3:45-4:00pm – Break \n4:00-5:00pm – Michael Zank (Boston University) \n“’Right for the Wrong Reasons?’ Revisiting Cohen and Strauss on Maimonides’ Platonism” \nChair: Alexandra Zirkle (SUNY Buffalo) \n6:30pm – Conference Dinner (kosher with vegetarian options) \n  \nTuesday\, June 10\, 2025\n10:15-11:15 – David Lemler (University of Paris – Sorbonne) \n“Hermann Cohen’s Selective Reading of Maimonides: Changing A Dogmatical Monotheism into an Ethical Monotheism” \nChair: Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder) \n11:15-11:30am – Break \n11:30am -12:30pm – George Y. Kohler (Bar-Ilan University) – on Zoom \n“Maimonides’ Theory of Divine Attributes as an Example of Infinite Judgements in Hermann Cohen” \nChair: Shira Billet (Jewish Theological Seminary) \n12:30-2:00pm – Lunch \n2:00-3:00pm – Anne-Marie Fowler (University of Toronto) \n“The Ethical as Necessarily Temporal: A Reading of Cohen’s Discussion of Maimonides’ Distinction between the Negative and the Privative” \nChair: Ynon Wygoda (University of Toronto) \n3:00-3:15pm – Break \n3:15-4:15pm – Ynon Wygoda (University of Toronto) \n“Maimonides and Cohen on Job as the Figure of Perplexion and Knowledge” \nChair: Michael Rosenthal (University of Toronto) \nNo group dinner on this day \n  \nWednesday\, June 11\, 2025\n9:00-10:40am \nCohen and Commentary \n\nOri Werdiger (Polonsky Academy\, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)\n\n“Jacob Gordin and the Limits of Cohen’s Maimonides” \n\nAlexandra Zirkle (SUNY Buffalo)\n\n“Hermann Cohen between Graetz and Susman: Exegetical Interplays” \n\nShira Billet (Jewish Theological Seminary)\n\n“Hermeneutics and the Holy Spirit: Hermann Cohen on Psalm 51 and Isaiah 63” \nChair & Respondent: Elias Sacks (University of Colorado Boulder) \n11:00am-12:30pm \nCommentary in Modern Jewish Thought \nA roundtable discussion \n\nShira Billet\nElias Sacks\nOri Werdiger\nYnon Wygoda\nAlexandra Zirkle\n\n12:30pm – Lunch \n  \n  \nOrganized by Michael Rosenthal (Toronto)\, Ori Werdiger (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute) & Ynon Wygoda (Toronto) \nSponsors: Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy\, Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies\, Department of Philosophy\, University of Toronto
URL:https://philosophy.utoronto.ca/event/hermann-cohens-ethics-of-maimonides/
LOCATION:Jackman Humanities Building\, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall)\, 170 St. George Street\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5R 2M8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Graduate,St. George,UTM,UTSC
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