Ethics Of Maimonides

Author : Maimonides
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486119342

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Ethical Writings of Maimonides by Maimonides Pdf

Philosopher, physician, and master of rabbinical literature, Moses ben Maimon (1135-1204) strove to reconcile biblical revelation with medieval Aristotelianism. His writings, especially the celebrated Guide for the Perplexed, exercised considerable influence on both Jewish and Christian scholasticism and brought him lasting renown as one of the greatest medieval thinkers. This volume contains his most significant ethical works, newly translated from the original sources by Professors Raymond L. Weiss and Charles E. Butterworth, well-known Maimonides scholars. Previous translations have often been inadequate — either because they were not based on the best possible texts or from a lack of precision. That deficiency has been remedied in this text; the translations are based on the latest scholarship and have been made with a view toward maximum accuracy and readability. Moreover, the long "Letter to Joseph" has been translated into English for the first time. This edition includes the following selections: I. Laws Concerning Character Traits (complete) II. Eight Chapters (complete) III. On the Management of Health IV. Letter to Joseph V. Guide of the Perplexed VII. The Days of the Messiah Taken as a whole, this collection presents a comprehensive and revealing overview of Maimonides' thought regarding the relationship of revelation and reason in the sphere of ethics. Here are his teachings concerning "natural law," secular versus religious authority, the goals of moral conduct, diseases of the soul, the application of logic to ethical matters, and the messianic era. Throughout, the great sage is concerned to reconcile the apparent divergence between biblical teachings and Greek philosophy.

Author : Raymond L. Weiss
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1991-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226891526

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Maimonides' Ethics by Raymond L. Weiss Pdf

Papers from the conference on Priority Issues, Publications Services distributes for the Australian Institution of Engineers. No index. Shows how the 12th-century Hebrew scholar integrated the philosophical systems of Athens and Jerusalem without violating the spirit of either or downplaying their essential incompatibility. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Hermann Cohen
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780299177638

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Ethics of Maimonides by Hermann Cohen Pdf

Hermann Cohen’s essay on Maimonides’ ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and her own extensive commentary on this landmark 1908 work, which inspired readings of medieval and rabbinic sources by Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas. Cohen rejects the notion that we should try to understand texts of the past solely in the context of their own historical era. Subverting the historical order, he interprets the ethical meanings of texts in the light of a future yet to be realized. He commits the entire Jewish tradition to a universal socialism prophetically inspired by ideals of humanity, peace, and universal justice. Through her own probing commentary on Cohen’s text, like the margin notes of a medieval treatise, Bruckstein performs the hermeneutical act that lies at the core of Cohen’s argument: she reads Jewish sources from a perspective that recognizes the interpretive act of commentary itself.

Author : Marvin Fox
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780226259420

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Interpreting Maimonides by Marvin Fox Pdf

In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions—ideas that have embattled readers of Maimonides since the twelfth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594734052

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Maimonides—Essential Teachings on Jewish Faith & Ethics by Anonim Pdf

The teachings of Judaism's greatest medieval philosopher can be a companion on your own spiritual journey. No Jewish thinker has had a more significant impact on Jewish religious thought than Moses Maimonides (1138–1204). A medieval philosopher whose vision covered an extensive range, he created a method of mediating between revelation and reason that laid the groundwork for a rational, philosophically sophisticated Judaism. He also provided an approach to biblical interpretation and philosophy that remains relevant for people of all faiths who follow a religion based on sacred text and oral interpretation. In this accessible examination of Maimonides’s theological and philosophical teachings, Rabbi Marc D. Angel opens up for us Maimonides’s views on the nature of God, providence, prophecy, free will, human nature, repentance and more. He explores basic concepts of faith that Maimonides posits must serve as the basis for proper religious life. He also examines Maimonides’s insights on reward and punishment, messianic days, the world to come and other tenets of Jewish faith. Now you can experience the wisdom of Maimonides even if you have no previous knowledge of Judaism or Jewish philosophy. SkyLight Illuminations provides insightful yet unobtrusive commentary that reveals why Maimonides’s teachings continue to have profound relevance to those seeking an intellectually vibrant understanding of Judaism.

Author : Fred Rosner
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461733270

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Sex Ethics in the Writings of Moses Maimonides by Fred Rosner Pdf

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Author : Howard Kreisel
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438409672

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Maimonides' Political Thought by Howard Kreisel Pdf

This book presents a series of studies that cover a wide range of issues relating to Maimonides' political thought, including the basis for political and ethical knowledge; the notion of the "good"; imitatio Dei; apparent contradictions in his position on ethics; the conception of God that he attempts to inculcate to Jewish society at large; and his novel approach to the love and fear of God. Taking into account his medieval Aristotelian and Jewish sources, these explorations also deal with some of the opposing considerations that Maimonides had to balance in developing and presenting his positions on such subjects as the nature of divine law, the static vs. dynamic dimensions of Mosaic law, prophetic and rabbinic authority within Judaism, the reasons for the commandments, and martyrdom. A close reading of the manner in which he formulates his views, in light of their literary and intellectual-historical contexts, allows us a better glimpse of how profound and subtle Maimonides is as a thinker and an educator.

Author : Jeremy P. Brown,Marc Herman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004460942

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Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism by Jeremy P. Brown,Marc Herman Pdf

Accounting for the Commandments in Medieval Judaism explores the discursive formation of the commandments as a generative matrix of Jewish thought and life in the posttalmudic period, correlating the diverse domains of jurisprudence, philosophy, ethics, pietism, and kabbalah.

Author : Michael Fagenblat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804774680

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A Covenant of Creatures by Michael Fagenblat Pdf

"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework, Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of epistemology.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : AMS Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1912-06
Category : Jewish ethics
ISBN : 0404504973

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Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics by Moses Maimonides Pdf

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Jewish ethics
ISBN : OCLC:1126624837

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The eight chapters of Maimonides on ethics by Moses Maimonides Pdf

Author : Moses Maimonides,Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle,Shmuel Ibn Tibbon
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0344594904

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The Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics (Shemonah Perakim) by Moses Maimonides,Joseph Isaac Gorfinkle,Shmuel Ibn Tibbon Pdf

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Author : Idit Dobbs-Weinstein,Lenn E. Goodman,James Allen Grady
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791477250

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Maimonides and His Heritage by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein,Lenn E. Goodman,James Allen Grady Pdf

This volume celebrates the depth and breadth of Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides' (1138–1204) achievements. The essays gathered here explore the rich diversity of a heritage that extends over eight hundred years, beginning with Maimonides' historical context; ranging through his distinct contributions to philosophy, theology, medicine, and Jewish law; to the impact his ideas have had on later generations. His humane perspective and commitment to intellectual rigor are reflected in the wide range of his works and his active role as a spiritual guide and intellectual leader. Maimonides' intellectual openness makes his work an enduring model of creative synthesis and critical appropriation, as well as a continuing source of intellectual stimulation not only for the many specialist scholars who scrutinize his texts but also for a wide and lively audience of nonspecialists.

Author : Moshe Halbertal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400848478

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Maimonides by Moshe Halbertal Pdf

Maimonides was the greatest Jewish philosopher and legal scholar of the medieval period, a towering figure who has had a profound and lasting influence on Jewish law, philosophy, and religious consciousness. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to his life and work, revealing how his philosophical sensibility and outlook informed his interpretation of Jewish tradition. Moshe Halbertal vividly describes Maimonides's childhood in Muslim Spain, his family's flight to North Africa to escape persecution, and their eventual resettling in Egypt. He draws on Maimonides's letters and the testimonies of his contemporaries, both Muslims and Jews, to offer new insights into his personality and the circumstances that shaped his thinking. Halbertal then turns to Maimonides's legal and philosophical work, analyzing his three great books--Commentary on the Mishnah, the Mishneh Torah, and the Guide of the Perplexed. He discusses Maimonides's battle against all attempts to personify God, his conviction that God's presence in the world is mediated through the natural order rather than through miracles, and his locating of philosophy and science at the summit of the religious life of Torah. Halbertal examines Maimonides's philosophical positions on fundamental questions such as the nature and limits of religious language, creation and nature, prophecy, providence, the problem of evil, and the meaning of the commandments. A stunning achievement, Maimonides offers an unparalleled look at the life and thought of this important Jewish philosopher, scholar, and theologian.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Jewish ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010466634

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The Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics (Shemonah Perakim) by Moses Maimonides Pdf