Israel Bar-Yehuda Idalovichi

• Prof.
• Independent scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This ambitious work seeks to reclassify and restructure the history of ideas and the philosophy of culture through a wide-ranging and novel use of the idea of the organon. It does so by radically revising standard interpretations and theories of all branches of philosophy, and by providing an intellectual and philosophical foundation for the new or...

A comprehensive definition of the phenomenon called life led to the addition of many dimensions to the natural sciences, and especially the conscious mental dimension. Historical attention is paid not only to those employing the natural philosophical paradigms, but also to evolutionary theories and to the Kantian teleological philosophy. The belief...

Expanding the learner's capacity for inquiry and reflective thinking is one of the most important tasks of modern education. Thinking reflectively about our own thoughts and practices, about education of children and adults and their personal development, has led us to believe in the value of guided reflective inquiry as an educational method. Curr...

The social-political analysis in this paper addresses many of the ambiguities that a critique of ideology and values, especially in the fields of education, media and morals, tends to evoke. Crises in identity and values accompanying the Jewish State since the beginning of the twentieth century have characterised the modern history of Israel as a c...

Human beings are imagining beings. The substantial mental and spiritual strength of human beings is their imagination. The ability to imagine is vital for human existence and freedom. Imagination is the primordial force of every aspiration since it is boundless, self-contained, and unrestricted. Humans have no clue about imagination’s sources or ho...

The core notion of this study is that imagination is vital to attain knowledge and creating ideas and theories in all cultural domains, leading to new inventions in science and technology. This research aims to reveal the various forms and explanations of the power of imagination in a cross-disciplinary effort and provide a platform for conceptual...

Each first philosophy constitutes a threat for the others. What results is a merciless struggle of these doctrines of the first philosophy; all are incapable of finding a common language or common criteria. In this struggle, each first philosophy by its very existence challenges all those that it opposes; each manages to avoid being bothered by oth...

The main objective of the present project is to create a new synthesis, an amalgamation of different concepts, ideograms, and scientific theories together with historical, mythological, philosophical and artistic theories, aiming at shaping a new cultural system. Accordingly, a new schema is called for in order to describe and establish the common...

The main objective of the present project is to create a new synthesis, an amalgamation of different concepts, ideograms, and scientific theories together with historical, mythological, philosophical and artistic theories, aiming at shaping a new cultural system. Accordingly, a new schema is called for in order to describe and establish the common...

Finding common ground that could stand to bridge between the cultural sciences reflects an unswerving attempt in creating an all-inclusive phenomenological apparatus. Such an apparatus may serve not only as a bridge, but it may also enhance all human knowledge and experience in the proliferation of the cultural sciences by encapsulating them as sym...

On the whole, the Romantic philosophers maintain that imagination has two functions: 1) The ‘primary imagination’ is a fundamental, non-voluntary, largely unconscious synthesizer of experience, which lies at the root of human consciousness. It is also involves perception by creating particular kinds of order aimed at making sense of our experience...

A Book Review on Israel Bar-Yehuda Idalovichi. Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork for the Organon of the Cultural Sciences. Vols. 1 & 2. Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2014. 450 pp. £54.99 GBP (Hardcover ISBN 9781443859066); 510 pp. £54.99 GBP (Hardcover ISBN 9781443859127).

My new study on imagination will start with the chapter on imagination in my book, Symbolic Forms as the Metaphysical Groundwork for the Organon of the Cultural Sciences, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, vol. 1 & 2, 2014, pp. 925.

The Metaphysics of Imagination

One of the academic outcomes of 20th Century crime, suffering, despair, mass murder and the Holocaust reveals itself in a new science - the science of victimization or victimology. Although these phenomena have their starting point at the very beginning of the existence of homo sapiens, as a new science, victimology emphasizes new perspectives and...

This article examines some of the epis- temological and socio-political issues that have emerged in the context of reflecting on the relationship between the Israeli left and messianic ideology. The old messianic vision finds its materialization in the revolutionary idea of establishing a new order, an order that includes all Jewish political, soci...

In this paper I propose to examine a mythical character that has a tremendous influence on the debate over the new Israeli-Jewish identity. The paper argues that the Wandering/Eternal Jew, aside from its intrinsic importance for Jewish History, functions as a mechanism through which the opposition with the Sabra is maintained in Israeli society. Pr...

This article analyses the intellectual, religious, national and moral processes through which a democratic society has had to confront in its day-to-day routines under the ever-present threat of terror. It discusses the effects of the terror over the character of Israeli society and the critical debates in its system of education. As far as it can...

Ongoing political, military and social violence gives the impression that liberal ideas of freedom, democracy and multicultural society do not serve as a barrier to the shedding of blood. This paper shows that recognizing the way powerful interests color our conceptions of truth and value and need not automatically result in a purge of all existing...

Ongoing political, military and social violence gives the impression that liberal ideas of freedom, democracy and multicultural society do not serve as a barrier to the shedding of blood. This paper shows that recognizing the way powerful interests color our conceptions of truth and value and need not automatically result in a purge of all existing...

במוקד דיון בדבר אפשרות האמונה אחר השואה מצויות משנותיהם של עמנואל לוינס, ז'אן אמרי, אמיל פקנהיים, ארתור כהן, ריצ'ארד כהן והוגים יהודים אחרים. השואה היא האירוע המרכזי בתולדות העם היהודי בעת החדשה אשר העמיד את הקיום האנושי והיהודי במבחן שאין למעלה ממנו. השואה העמידה במבחן טראגי תורות ערכים, אמונות ותורות מוסר, והותירה אותן לעיתים קרובות רצוצות, חבול...

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview and analysis of attitudes of Israeli K-12 educators and bible teachers toward religious studies. Teachers attitudes toward bible teaching as a mandatory subject are, on the whole, positive throughout the country. The present study addresses the absence of systematic research into the opinions of...