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The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
Discusses the problems Maimonides encountered, showing the depth and breadth of his philosophical thought.
Kenneth Seeskin (Author)
9780521819749, Cambridge University Press
Hardback, published 26 September 2005
424 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 3.1 cm, 0.677 kg
'Kenneth Seeskin has assembled a distinguished team … [a] stimulating assembly.' The Times Literary Supplement
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.
1. Moses Maimonides: an intellectual portrait Joel Kraemer
2. The Guide and Maimonides' philosophical sources Alfred L. Ivry
3. Metaphysics and its transcendence Kenneth Seeskin
4. Maimonides' epistemology Josef Stern
5. Maimonides' philosophy of sciences Gad Freudenthal
6. Maimonides' moral theory David Shatz
7. Maimonides' political philosophy Haim Kreisel
8. Jurisprudence David Novak
9. Bible commentary Sara Klein-Braslavy
10. Spiritual life Menachem Kellner
11. Maimonides' esotericism and educational philosophy Aviezer Ravitsky
12. Maimonides: a guide for posterity Seymour Feldman.
Subject Areas: Theology [HRLB], Judaism [HRJ], Philosophy of religion [HRAB], Social & political philosophy [HPS], Islamic & Arabic philosophy [HPDC], Non-Western philosophy [HPD]