The Many Faces of Maimonides

Dov Schwartz

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The Many Faces of Maimonides

Dov Schwartz
Translated by: Batya Stein

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2018

About this book

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 Kalām, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides’ search for objective truth is also analyzed in its connection with the scientific writings of his time, which neither the Kalām 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 / Editor information

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.

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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.

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Philosophy Philosophy of Religion

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Table of Contents
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Introduction
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1. The Passion for Metaphysics
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2. The Separate Intellects
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3. Astral Magic and the Law
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4. Idolatry as Mediation
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5. Immortality and Imagination
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6. Maimonides: A Philosophical Theologian
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Epilogue
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Bibliography
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Index
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May 25, 2018

eBook ISBN:

9781618117816

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200

This book is in the series

Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781618117816

eBook ISBN: 9781618117816

Keywords for this book

Maimonides; Jewish Philosophy; The Guide of the Perplexed

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College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;General/trade;

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The Many Faces of Maimonides

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. The Passion for Metaphysics

2. The Separate Intellects

3. Astral Magic and the Law

4. Idolatry as Mediation

5. Immortality and Imagination

6. Maimonides: A Philosophical Theologian

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

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