Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Silence and Salvation (Routlege Jewish Studies) - Brossura

Mccallum, Donald

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ISBN 10: 0415593395 ISBN 13: 9780415593397

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2007

Riassunto

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death. The author examines the apparent tensions and contradictions in the Guide and explains them in terms of a modern philosophical interpretation rather than as evidence of some esoteric meaning hidden in the text.

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L'autore:

Donald McCallum received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Manchester and now works as a civil servant.  His research interests are in the areas of mediaeval philosophy, especially in the Jewish tradition, Spinoza and Schopenhauer.

Contenuti:

Introduction  1. Leo Strauss and Oliver Leaman on How to Read the Guide  2. What we can say about God – The Philosophical Theology of the Guide  3. What we can say about Creation – Marvin Fox on How to Read the Guide  4. Using Wittgenstein’s Tractatus to Approach the Guide  5. A Reconstruction of the Soteriology of the Guide  6. A Reconstruction of the Soteriology of the Guide – Some Further Details  7. Showing that which cannot be said – In Tolstoy and in the Torah 

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0415593395
• ISBN 13: 9780415593397
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 200