TY - BOOK ID - 77890372 TI - Judah Abrabanel's Philosophy of Love and Kabbalah PY - 2012 SN - 0773419292 9780773419292 9780773430549 0773430547 PB - Lewiston The Edwin Mellen Press DB - UniCat KW - Cabala. KW - Jewish philosophy. KW - Leo ́n, Hebreo, b. ca. 1460. Dialoghi d’amore. KW - Love -- Philosophy. KW - Philosophy, Medieval. KW - Love KW - Cabala KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Philosophy, Medieval KW - Philosophy & Religion KW - Philosophy KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - Jews KW - Philosophy, Jewish KW - Philosophy, Israeli KW - Cabbala KW - Kábala KW - Kabalah KW - Kabbala KW - Kabbalah KW - Qabalah KW - Jewish literature KW - Magic KW - Mysticism KW - Judaism KW - León, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77890372 AB - This book shows how Judah Abrabanel's writings are philosophical, and not merely religious. It examines the Renaissance belief that Love should know more than Wisdom, which is something Abrabanel taught. The ultimate mystical union with God for Abrabanel is beneficence towards one's fellow human beings. His view is that love is the affirmation of both God and human individual experience. Knowledge of man and God are both dependent upon the experience of love. ER -