Abstract

This paper analyses three cosmogonic perspectives very different from each other but that account for the great philosophical richness that the medieval and modern thought of Jewish inspiration has delivered to the Western thought, informing it directly of its own theoretical instances. Saadia Gaon’s creationism, Ibn Gabirol’s emanationism and Spinoza’s monism are the result of a theoretical encounter between Jewish matrix and philosophical thought that, applied to the cosmogonic question, has produced original and influential concepts for the following thought