Maimonides Guide Of The Perplexed In Translation

Author : Josef Stern,James T. Robinson,Yonatan Shemesh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Josef Stern,James T. Robinson,Yonathan Shemesh
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226627878

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Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed" in Translation by Josef Stern,James T. Robinson,Yonathan 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 : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226502274

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The Guide of the Perplexed, Volume 2 by Moses Maimonides Pdf

This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.

Author : Alfred L. Ivry
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Igor H. De Souza
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781503637221

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The Guide to the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides Pdf

A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy, a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science, logic and revelation. The author, Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, commonly known as Maimonides or as Rambam, was a Sephardi Jewish philosopher, jurist, and physician. He wrote his Guide in the form of a letter to a disciple. But the perplexity it aimed to cure might strike anyone who sought to square logic, mathematics, and the sciences with biblical and rabbinic traditions. In this new translation by philosopher Lenn E. Goodman and historian Phillip I. Lieberman, Maimonides' warm, conversational voice and clear explanatory language come through as never before in English. Maimonides knew well the challenges facing serious inquirers at the confluence of the two great streams of thought and learning that Arabic writers labeled 'aql and naql, reason and tradition. The aim of the Guide, he wrote, is to probe the mysteries of physics and metaphysics. But mysteries, to Maimonides, were not conundrums to be celebrated for their obscurity. They were problems to be solved. Maimonides' methods and insights resonate throughout the work of later Jewish thinkers, rationalists, and mystics, and in the work of philosophers like Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza, Leibniz, and Newton. The Guide continues to inspire inquiry, discovery, and vigorous debate among philosophers, theologians, and lay readers today. Goodman and Lieberman's extensive and detailed commentary provides readers with historical context and philosophical enlightenment, giving generous access to the nuances, complexities, and profundities of what is widely agreed to be the most significant textual monument of medieval Jewish thought, a work that still offers a key to those who hope to harmonize religious commitments and scientific understanding.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Jewish philosophy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001608160

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The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides Pdf

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : CCEL
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Arthur Hyman
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Jewish philosophy
ISBN : 0881254347

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Maimonidean studies. 2.1991(1992) by Arthur Hyman Pdf

Author : Micah Goodman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 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 : James Arthur Diamond
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791452476

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Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment by James Arthur Diamond Pdf

Examines how Maimonides integrates scriptural and rabbinic literature into his magnum opus, The Guide of the Perplexed.

Author : Moses Maimonides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1528705955

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The Guide for the Perplexed - Translated from the Original Arabic Text by Moses Maimonides Pdf

First published in 1881, this vintage book contains a translation of Maimonides' "Dalalat al-Hairin," better known by the Hebrew title "Moreb Nebuchim" or, in English, "The Guide for the Perplexed." It includes a short Life of Maimonides, an analysis of the work in its entirety, and a translation of the First Part from the Arabic with explanatory and critical notes. Contents include: "Dedicatory Letter," "The Object of the Guide," "On Similes," "Directions for the Study of this Work," "The Homonymity of Zelem," "On Genesis III," "On Tabnit and Temunab," "On Raah, Hibbit, and Bazah," "On Exod," "On Yalad," "On Kisse," "On Kam," etc. This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in important Hebrew works and it is not to be missed by collectors. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with the original text and artwork.

Author : Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Maimonides
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.