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The Many Faces of Maimonides - Dov Schwartz

The Many Faces of Maimonides

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Buch | Softcover
200 Seiten
2019
Academic Studies Press (Verlag)
978-1-61811-906-3 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
Offers a new reading of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, this book explores how Maimonides' commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kalm, 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 Kalām, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search for objective truth is also analyzed in its connection with the scientific writings of his time, which neither the Kalām 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
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 1-61811-906-0 / 1618119060
ISBN-13 978-1-61811-906-3 / 9781618119063
Zustand Neuware
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