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

[Zev Sero via Avodah]

On 06/22/2016 05:55 PM, David Riceman via Avodah wrote:
> It’s perfectly respectable for someone in the Rambam’s era to use
> neoplatonic ideas without comment. Today it requires serious
> justification.

Why?  What scientific discovery between then and now has discredited
neoplatonism?   *Can* a school of philosophy be discredited?  Do they
make testable claims that can be refuted?

If you mean merely that it's no longer fashionable, why should that
matter?  We Jews have never let fashion dictate our philosophies, and
why should we?


-- 
Zev Sero               Meaningless combinations of words do not acquire
zev at sero.name          meaning merely by appending them to the two other
                        words `God can'.  Nonsense remains nonsense, even
                        when we talk it about God.   -- C S Lewis