Lecture
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Tuesday 28.07.2026
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Medieval Philosophy 2: Saint Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham
Tuesday 28.07.2026
Summary
In this continuing series, we now focus on how Christian philosophers engaged Greek philosophy and merged reason with the faith. A fascinating look at European Christendom.
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite teaches Chinese History, Middle Eastern and Islamic history, and sometimes Jewish history, at New York University. He is author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China (Harvard, 2005); The Ten Lost Tribes: A World History (Oxford, 2009); co-editor of Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Culture, and Politics (Brandeis, 2013); The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic Perspectives on the History of a Concept (Columbia University Press, 2017); and Time and Language: New Sinology and Chinese History (Hawaii University Press, 2023).