A Guide to TheGuide to the Perplexed

A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork

Lenn Goodman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

270 Seiten

2024
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-3747-4 (ISBN)

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In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late twelfth century, Maimonides' Guide aims to help religiously committed readers who are alive to the challenges posed by reason and the natural sciences to biblical and rabbinic tradition. Keyed to the new translation and commentary by Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman, this volume follows Maimonides' life and learning and delves into the text of the Guide, clearly explaining just what Maimonides means by identifying the Talmudic Ma'aseh Bereshit and Ma'aseh Merkavah with physics and metaphysics (to Maimonides, biblical cosmology and theology). Exploring Maimonides' treatments of revelation, religious practice and experience, law and ritual, the problem of evil, and the rational purposes of the commandments, this guide to the Guide explains the tactics Maimonides deployed to ensure that readers not get in over their heads when venturing into philosophical deep waters.

Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

Abbreviations

Two Notes to the Reader

Introduction

Part I: Building Blocks

1. Setting the Scene

2. Learning

3. Cairo

4. A New Life

5. Believing

Part II: The Work of the Guide

6. Defining the Issues

7. Problematics

Part III: Esoterics

8. The Esoteric Style

9. Not Philosophy?

10. Breadcrumbs

Conclusion: The Guide Today

Notes

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	27.04.2024
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-10	1-5036-3747-6 / 1503637476
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-3747-4 / 9781503637474
Zustand	Neuware