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9780521525787

The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521525787

  • ISBN10:

    0521525780

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-09-12
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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One aim of this series is to dispel the intimidation readers feel when faced with the work of difficult and challenging thinkers. Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (1138-1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the middle ages. He played a pivotal role in the transition of philosophy from the Islamic East to the Christian West. His greatest philosophical work, The Guide of the Perplexed, had a decisive impact on all subsequent Jewish thought and is still the subject of intense scholarly debate. An enigmatic figure, Maimonides continues to defy simple attempts at classification. The twelve essays in this volume offer a lucid and comprehensive treatment of his life and thought. They cover the sources on which Maimonides drew, his contributions to philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, and Bible commentary, as well as his esoteric writing style and influence on later thinkers.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment ix
Citations and Abbreviations xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction 1(272)
KENNETH SEESKIN
1. Moses Maimonides: An Intellectual Portrait
10(48)
JOEL L. KRAEMER
2. The Guide and Maimonides' Philosophical Sources
58(24)
ALFRED L. IVRY
3. Metaphysics and Its Transcendence
82(23)
KENNETH SEESKIN
4. Maimonides' Epistemology
105(29)
JOSEF STERN
5. Maimonides' Philosophy of Science
134(33)
GAD FREUDENTHAL
6. Maimonides' Moral Theory
167(26)
DAVID SHATZ
7. Maimonides' Political Philosophy
193(28)
HAIM KREISEL
8. Jurisprudence
221(24)
DAVID NOVAK
9. Bible Commentary
245(28)
SARA KLEIN-BRASLAVY
10. Spiritual Life 273(27)
MENACHEM KELLNER
11. Maimonides: Esotericism and Educational Philosophy 300(24)
AVIEZER RAVITZKY
12. Maimonides — A Guide for Posterity 324(37)
SEYMOUR FELDMAN
Bibliography 361(30)
Index 391

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