Samuel Alexander's theism and its relation to Jewish thought

Samuel Alexander (1859-1938) was a leading philosopher in England during the first four decades of the twentieth century. Born in Sydney, Australia, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with First Class Honours in Classical and Mathematical Moderations and a First Class in Greats. He was a professor at Manchester University for thirty-two years, and served as president of the Aristotelian Society from 1908 to 1911 and again in 1936-37. In June 1930 the Order of Merit was conferred upon Alexander, recognizing his inestimable contribution to philosophy and his magnum opus, Space, Time, and Deity (1920). Alexander took an active part in Jewish communal affairs and was a lifelong member of the Manchester Reform Synagogue. In a letter written by Alexander (dated 31 August 1931) to an unnamed correspondent, he states that 'I say nowadays that in spite of its manifest insufficiency I stick to Judaism...' Professor John Laird, Alexander's literary executor, makes this letter the basis of his examination of Alexander's theism. This article examines some affinities of Alexander's theism to, in particular, Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed

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