[Avodah] a priori ideas in the "mind" of God

David Riceman via Avodah avodah at lists.aishdas.org
Wed Jun 22 09:25:01 PDT 2016


I’ve been rereading Uvikeshtem Misham by RYBS, and I find it more puzzling than I recall on my last reading.

The problem is this.  RYBS postulates that our connection with God comes from cognizing ideas which God
also cognizes.  Now that makes sense in a neoplatonic framework, but it needs a new foundation today.  This
is a particular issue because in Ish HaHalacha RYBS describes these same ideas as a priori categories, and a
good Kantian would attribute a priori categories, not to an objective realm, but to the structure of human thought.

Did he (or someone else) discuss this somewhere?

David Riceman


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