The Many Faces of Maimonides
Seiten
2018
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-780-9 (ISBN)
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-780-9 (ISBN)
Offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed, exploring how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kal?m, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge.
This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kal?m, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search for objective truth is also analysed in its connection with the scientific writings of his time, which neither the Kal?m nor the Jewish philosophical tradition that preceded him had endorsed. Through a careful analysis of these issues, this book seeks to contribute to the understanding of the modes of thought adopted in The Guide of the Perplexed, including the ‘philosophical theologian’ model of Maimonides’ own design, and to the knowledge of its sources.
This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kal?m, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search for objective truth is also analysed in its connection with the scientific writings of his time, which neither the Kal?m nor the Jewish philosophical tradition that preceded him had endorsed. Through a careful analysis of these issues, this book seeks to contribute to the understanding of the modes of thought adopted in The Guide of the Perplexed, including the ‘philosophical theologian’ model of Maimonides’ own design, and to the knowledge of its sources.
Dov Schwartz, a former Dean of Humanities at Bar Ilan University and head of the departments of Philosophy and of Music, currently heads its interdisciplinary unit, and holds the Natalie and Isidore Friedman Chair for Teaching Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Thought.
Introduction
1. The Passion for Metaphysics
2. The Separate Intellects
3. Astral Magic and the Law
4. Idolatry as Mediation
5. Immortality and Imagination
6. Maimonides: A Philosophical Theologian
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.08.2018 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah |
| Übersetzer | Batya Stein |
| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Brighton |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-61811-780-7 / 1618117807 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-61811-780-9 / 9781618117809 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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