IBN SHEM TOV, ISAAC BEN SHEM TOV
- IBN SHEM TOV, ISAAC BEN SHEM TOV
- IBN SHEM TOV, ISAAC BEN SHEM TOV (15th century),
Spanish rabbi and philosopher. Isaac ben Shem Tov was the son of the
anti-Aristotelian mystic, Shem Tov ibn shem tov , but his
intellectual temperament differed severely from his father's. He became
a loyal Aristotelian rationalist, more so than his older brother Joseph
Shem Tov ibn shem tov and as much as his nephew Shem-Tov b.
joseph shem tov ibn shem tov . He taught philosophy in Aguilar de
Campóo, Castile, and was an erudite and prolific writer in Hebrew on
Aristotelian themes, specializing in commentaries on philosophic
classics. He wrote at least 14 works, eight of which are extant. These
include four commentaries on Averroes' "Intermediate Commentary on
Aristotle's Physics" and a favorable commentary on the book singularly
decried by his father – Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.
He was an eager critic of Ḥasdai Crescas , but generally, the
subtleties of Crescas' revolutionary thought on such subjects as actual
infinity seem to have eluded him. On the other hand, he may have been
the first Hebrew author to distinguish between the categorematic and
syncategorematic infinities.
-BIBLIOGRAPHY:
H.A. Wolfson, in: Studies… A.S. Freidus (1929), 279–90; idem,
Crescas' Critique of Aristotle (1929), index; S. Rosenberg,
He'arot be-Mussag ha-"Einsofiyyut" (1969), 31–2.
(Warren Zev Harvey)
Encyclopedia Judaica.
1971.
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