This lecture series is a project of the Jacob Lights Foundation and was generously sponsored by R' Yoel Werzberger.
Highlights:
00:00 The meaning of “good” according to Crescas; Plato and Aristotle on the meaning of “good”; Maimonides' strange silence on the issue
18:30 Maimonides shifts theodicy from ethics to metaphysics
20:00 Privation as a principle of reality
31:00 The dynamic interplay between being and non-being
37:00 Understanding the nature of being is how beings learn to appreciate being
50:30 Why do all humans think there is evil if there really isn't any?
54:00 Knowledge and the forms are eternal
57:00 Privation and its association with matter
59:30 Humans can't help but see evil since they are embodied