Maimonides Guide Of The Perplexed

Author : Alfred L. Ivry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226395265

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Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed by Alfred L. Ivry Pdf

A classic of medieval Jewish philosophy, Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is as influential as it is difficult and demanding. Not only does the work contain contrary—even contradictory—statements, but Maimonides deliberately wrote in a guarded and dissembling manner in order to convey different meanings to different readers, with the knowledge that many would resist his bold reformulations of God and his relation to mankind. As a result, for all the acclaim the Guide has received, comprehension of it has been unattainable to all but a few in every generation. Drawing on a lifetime of study, Alfred L. Ivry has written the definitive guide to the Guide—one that makes it comprehensible and exciting to even those relatively unacquainted with Maimonides’ thought, while also offering an original and provocative interpretation that will command the interest of scholars. Ivry offers a chapter-by-chapter exposition of the widely accepted Shlomo Pines translation of the text along with a clear paraphrase that clarifies the key terms and concepts. Corresponding analyses take readers more deeply into the text, exploring the philosophical issues it raises, many dealing with metaphysics in both its ontological and epistemic aspects.

Author : Josef Stern,James T. Robinson,Yonatan Shemesh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226457635

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Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation by Josef Stern,James T. Robinson,Yonatan Shemesh Pdf

Moses Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed is the greatest philosophical text in the history of Jewish thought and a major work of the Middle Ages. For almost all of its history, however, the Guide has been read and commented upon in translation—in Hebrew, Latin, Spanish, French, English, and other modern languages—rather than in its original Judeo-Arabic. This volume is the first to tell the story of the translations and translators of Maimonides’ Guide and its impact in translation on philosophy from the Middle Ages to the present day. A collection of essays by scholars from a range of disciplines, the book unfolds in two parts. The first traces the history of the translations of the Guide, from medieval to modern renditions. The second surveys its influence in translation on Latin scholastic, early modern, and contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, as well as its impact in translation on current scholarship. Interdisciplinary in approach, this book will be essential reading for philosophers, historians, and religious studies scholars alike.

Author : Daniel Davies
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199768738

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Method and Metaphysics in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed by Daniel Davies Pdf

This book investigates the substance and presentation of major metaphysical themes in Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Using rigorous philosophy it seeks to refute the view that the Guide hides an ''esoteric'' philosophical meaning beneath a traditional veneer, and offers a new explanation of his esotericism.

Author : Maimonides
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Daniel Frank,Aaron Segal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108480512

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Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed by Daniel Frank,Aaron Segal Pdf

This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : CCEL
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Jewish philosophy
ISBN : 9781931848367

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Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides Pdf

In the 12th century, Moses Maimonides wrote a long letter to one of his rabbinical students discussing a variety of philosophical matters concerning theology. The text tries to clarify some of the contradictions between the literal meaning of the Torah and its philosophical explications. This work is still of interest to contemporary philosophers and theologians.

Author : Igor H. De Souza
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110557978

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Rewriting Maimonides by Igor H. De Souza Pdf

Maimonideanism, the intellectual culture inspired by Maimonides’ writings, has received much recent attention. Yet a central aspect of Maimonideanism has been overlooked: the formal reception of the Guide of the Perplexed through commentary. In Rewriting Maimonides, Igor H. De Souza offers a comprehensive analysis of six early philosophical commentaries, written in Italy, Spain, and France, by some of Maimonides’ most loyal followers. The early commentaries represent the most creative period of exegesis of the Guide. De Souza’s analysis dispels the notion that the tradition of commentary on the Guide is monolithic. Rather, De Souza’s study illuminates how each commentator offers distinctive readings. Challenging the hierarchy of text and commentary, Rewriting Maimonides studies commentaries on the Guide as texts in their own right. De Souza approaches the form of commentary as a multifaceted cultural practice. Employing historical, philosophical, and literary methods, this publication fills a lacuna in the history of the Guide through a global perspective on commentary.

Author : Mark William Scarlata
Publisher : Macat Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Jewish philosophy
ISBN : 1912453819

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An Analysis of Maimonides's The Guide of the Perplexed by Mark William Scarlata Pdf

The Guide of the Perplexed attempts to explain the perplexities of biblical language. Engaging both contemporary and ancient scholars, Maimonides' intellectual breadth and openness makes this work a lasting model of creative synthesis in biblical studies and philosophical theology.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Jewish philosophy
ISBN : HARVARD:HXHXXH

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The Guide of the Perplexed of Maimonides by Moses Maimonides Pdf

Author : Micah Goodman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780827611986

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Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism by Micah Goodman Pdf

A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published in Israel on the preeminent medieval Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides. The works of Maimonides, particularly The Guide for the Perplexed, are reckoned among the fundamental texts that influenced all subsequent Jewish philosophy and also proved to be highly influential in Christian and Islamic thought. Spanning subjects ranging from God, prophecy, miracles, revelation, and evil, to politics, messianism, reason in religion, and the therapeutic role of doubt, Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism elucidates the complex ideas of The Guide in remarkably clear and engaging prose. Drawing on his own experience as a central figure in the current Israeli renaissance of Jewish culture and spirituality, Micah Goodman brings Maimonides’s masterwork into dialogue with the intellectual and spiritual worlds of twenty-first-century readers. Goodman contends that in Maimonides’s view, the Torah’s purpose is not to bring clarity about God but rather to make us realize that we do not understand God at all; not to resolve inscrutable religious issues but to give us insight into the true nature and purpose of our lives.

Author : Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Conduct of life
ISBN : 9780099480211

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A Guide for the Perplexed by Ernst Friedrich Schumacher Pdf

This book, by the author of 'Small is Beautiful' is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way. The arguments Schumacher presents are invigorating, provoking and often dramatic.

Author : Moshe Halbertal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 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 : José Faur
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0815627815

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Homo Mysticus by José Faur Pdf

In his seminal work, A Guide for the Perplexed, Moses Maimonides (1135–1204) laid the foundation for the future development of Jewish philosophy. In the centuries following his death, his book became the exemplar of reasoning faith. Its purpose was to reconcile Aristotle with Jewish philosophy and to provide a philosophical basis for Judaism’s teachings. Written in Arabic, the Guide was translated into Hebrew and Latin, with its influence extending to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Homo Mysticus, José Faur offers a modern rereading of Maimonides’s groundbreaking work. He examines the ideas, perspectives, and methodologies developed in modern critical theory and poststructural analysis and applies them to achieve an exciting new interpretation of the Guide. Faur’s interpretation of this text reveals Maimonides’s views on prophecy and philosophy, on imagination and intellect, on providence, on the importance of fulfilling the commandments, and above all on esoterism and mysticism. The result is a radical new interpretation of Maimonides, which will become the starting point for all future discussion and research on the philosopher and his important work.

Author : Kenneth Seeskin
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0874415098

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Maimonides by Kenneth Seeskin Pdf

The classic questions Maimonides contemplated in Guide for the Perplexed are addressed here in modern language. How should we describe God? What makes monotheism special? Why does evil exist in God's world? How will we know when the Messiah has come? Maimonides' philosophy and teachings, so significant to Jewish thought, made accessible to everyone.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Jewish philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39076005335943

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The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides Pdf