The Many Faces of Maimonides

By:

Dov Schwartz

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Hardback

Series:

Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

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This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides’ commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kal?m, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search for objective truth is also analysed in its connection with the scientific writings of his time, which neither the Kal?m nor the Jewish philosophical tradition that preceded him had endorsed. Through a careful analysis of these issues, this book seeks to contribute to the understanding of the modes of thought adopted in The Guide of the Perplexed, including the ‘philosophical theologian’ model of Maimonides’ own design, and to the knowledge of its sources.

Author Biography:

Dov Schwartz, a former Dean of Humanities at Bar Ilan University and head of the departments of Philosophy and of Music, currently heads its interdisciplinary unit, and holds the Natalie and Isidore Friedman Chair for Teaching Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Thought.

Release date Australia

June 14th, 2018

Author

Dov Schwartz

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Translated by Batya Stein

Pages

350

Series

Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

ISBN-13

9781618117809

Product ID

27755251

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