The Guide for the Perplexed

Moses Maimonides, M. Friedlander

ISBN 10: 1420959395 / ISBN 13: 9781420959390

Editore: Digireads.com Publishing 2018-10-03, 2018

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Titolo: The Guide for the Perplexed

Casa editrice: Digireads.com Publishing 2018-10-03

Data di pubblicazione: 2018

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: New

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Written in the 12th century in Arabic by a faithful Jewish man, “The Guide for the Perplexed” is a work that explores the contradiction a very intelligent mind clearly saw between the tradition in which he was raised to believe and the growing philosophy of Arabian and Western culture. In Maimonides’ time, there was an emerging disparity between the Law and a new level of philosophical sophistication, which he attempts to bridge in this work, primarily through the use of metaphor, though also acknowledging this method’s limitations. “The Guide for the Perplexed” follows the form of a three-volume letter to a student, which was quickly translated to Hebrew and spread throughout the known world and carefully read by Jews and non-Jewish philosophers alike well through the Middle Ages. This work was so successful in its organization and arguments that it has long been a classic of the Jewish religion and of the secular world of philosophy. This edition is printed on premium acid-free paper and is translated with an introduction and analysis by M. Friedlander.