Saadia Gaon was the first to write specifically on Jewish philosophy and set the stage forever after for Jewish philosophy to be neo Platonic. Even though the Rambam did move into the orbit of Aristotle still the later people like Crescas and Albo try to move the pendulum back to Plato. [Even mystic people like Avraham Abulafia and the Ari were building on a Neo Platonic framework.]
This is relevant for me because out of my own reading of philosophy I came out with a Kantian (of Kelley Ross) which is really a modification of Platonic thought. I wrote in some essay what brought me to this approach. Mainly it was experience plus seeing some of the problems in other approaches. [There was a lot of time that I spent on Hegel and Spinoza and the Intuitionists, and some time on John Locke. ] I am not saying I am any kind of philosopher myself. Rather I was just looking for a coherent world view to be able to deal with reality.
I mean that even though I have a neo Platonic point of view there are significant modifications and improvements that this needs. That is I don't think everything in Kant and Kelley Ross is automatically included in the Jewsih Philosophers of the Middle Ages. This is unlike Dr. Feser who I believe holds that all true insights of later people were included in the Scholastics.
This is relevant for me because out of my own reading of philosophy I came out with a Kantian (of Kelley Ross) which is really a modification of Platonic thought. I wrote in some essay what brought me to this approach. Mainly it was experience plus seeing some of the problems in other approaches. [There was a lot of time that I spent on Hegel and Spinoza and the Intuitionists, and some time on John Locke. ] I am not saying I am any kind of philosopher myself. Rather I was just looking for a coherent world view to be able to deal with reality.
I mean that even though I have a neo Platonic point of view there are significant modifications and improvements that this needs. That is I don't think everything in Kant and Kelley Ross is automatically included in the Jewsih Philosophers of the Middle Ages. This is unlike Dr. Feser who I believe holds that all true insights of later people were included in the Scholastics.
