Tzori HaYagon ["Balm for Pain": ethics, with insights how to overcome depression]

FALAQUERA, SHEM TOV

Vicenzo Conti

Cremona

1557

FIRST EDITION. Title surrounded by four vignettes.

Vinograd, Cremona 11; Benayahu, Cremona 11

The Spaniard, Shem Tov Falaquera (c.1225-95), was well versed in Greek and Islamic thought and rejected the notion that secular philosophy is inappropriate of study, an attitude he maintained stemmed from ignorance. Indeed Falaquera contended that the Greek philosophers derived their teachings from Jewish sources. A defender of Maimonides at the time of the anti-Maimonidean Controversy, Falaquera subscribed to the view first propounded in the Moreh Nevuchim, that it is the development of the intellect that leads to salvation. See EJ, Vol. VI, col. 1140-42.