Disciples of Aristotle and the Prophets: the religious passion of the radical Jewish philosophers and its political implications

The general image of the Jewish radical philosophers (most of them Averroist philosophers) is
that they don’t have any kind of religious passion. This image comes from two major principles:(I) Philosophers don’t have passion in general for anything. They
think only rationally. (II)Religious passion comes from irrational faith. For example: belief that God hears and answers prayers, belief in reward in this world and in the world to come, belief in providence, belief inthe metaphysical influence of actions and word etc. The Jewish radical philosopher doesn't believe
in any of these beliefs. Therefore we can conclude that they don’t have any religious passion.
According to this general image the Jewish radical philosopher albeit continues to live in areligious community abiding the ritual obligations and Jewish laws but only for social or peda- gogic reasons (religion is needed to influence the mass) or for fear of the mass.In this paper, I will argue against this generally accepted opinion. Firstly, I briefly de- scribe that philosophers have extreme passion derived directly from their rational learning(Eros to knowledge in the opinion of Plato). Secondly, I will describe that the rationallearning of the philosopher builds a very strong religious passion that is very similar to the passion of the biblical prophets. A religious passion coming from being chosen by God toopen the eyes of the misled people, and to lead them to the truth.