A Guide to The guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork - Brossura

Goodman, Lenn

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ISBN 10: 1503637476 ISBN 13: 9781503637474

Casa editrice: Stanford Univ Pr, 2024

Riassunto

In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late twelfth century, Maimonides' Guide aims to help religiously committed readers who are alive to the challenges posed by reason and the natural sciences to biblical and rabbinic tradition. Keyed to the new translation and commentary by Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman, this volume follows Maimonides' life and learning and delves into the text of the Guide, clearly explaining just what Maimonides means by identifying the Talmudic Ma'aseh Bereshit and Ma'aseh Merkavah with physics and metaphysics (to Maimonides, biblical cosmology and theology). Exploring Maimonides' treatments of revelation, religious practice and experience, law and ritual, the problem of evil, and the rational purposes of the commandments, this guide to the Guide explains the tactics Maimonides deployed to ensure that readers not get in over their heads when venturing into philosophical deep waters.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Stanford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1503637476
• ISBN 13: 9781503637474
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 520
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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