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1 Online-Ressource (335 pages)
ISBN:
9781909821033
Serie:
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization Series
Inhalt:
Maimonides was not the first rabbinic scholar to take an interest in philosophy, but he was unique in being a towering figure in both areas. His law code, the Mishneh torah, stands with Rashi's commentary on the Babylonian Talmud as one of the two most intensely studied works of medieval rabbinic scholarship, while his Guide for the Perplexed is the most influential and widely read Jewish philosophical work ever written. Admirers and critics have arrived at wildly divergent perceptions of the man. We have Maimonides the atheist or agnostic, Maimonides the skeptic, Maimonides the deist, Maimonides the Aristotelian, the Averroist, or proto-Kantian. We have a Maimonides seduced by the blandishments of 'accursed philosophy;' a Maimonides who sowed the seeds that led to Spanish Jews' loss of faith and mass apostasy and who was therefore responsible for the demise of Spanish Jewry; a Maimonides who incorporated philosophical elements into his rabbinic works and wrote the Guide for the Perplexed, not to propagate doctrines to which he was personally committed, but in order to rescue errant souls seduced by philosophy; a Maimonides who was the defender of the faith and defined the articles of Jewish belief for all time. In his own estimation, Maimonides was neither exclusively a dedicated philosopher nor exclusively a devoted rabbinist: he saw philosophy and the Written and Oral Torahs as a single, harmonious domain, and he believed that this view was similarly fundamental to the lives of the prophets and rabbis of old. In this book, Herbert Davidson examines Maimonides' efforts to reconstitute this all-embracing, rationalist worldview that he felt had been lost during the millennium-long exile
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Cover -- Contents -- Publisher's Note on Transliteration -- Abbreviations and Note on Sources -- 1. The Study of Philosophy as a Religious Obligation -- 2. The First Two Positive Divine Commandments -- 1. The 613 Commandments -- 2. FourWriters on the Commandments Prior to Maimonides -- 3. Maimonides -- 4.What Followed -- 3. Maimonides' Knowledge of the Philosophical Literature in his Rabbinic Period -- 1. Background -- 2. Neoplatonism -- 3. Kalam -- 4. Aristotle -- 5. The Arabic Aristotelians -- 6. Summary -- 4. Maimonides' Shemonah perakim and Alfarabi's Fusûl Muntaza〉a -- 5. Maimonides' Knowledge of the Philosophical Literature in his Later Period -- 1. Kalam -- 2. Aristotle -- 3. The Commentators on Aristotle -- 4. Other Greek Philosophers -- 5. The Arabic Philosophers -- 6. Medieval Jewish Thinkers -- 7. Summary -- 6. Maimonides on Metaphysical Knowledge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Alfarabi's Lost Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics -- 3. Ibn Bâjja's Position on Metaphysical Knowledge -- 4. The Moreh nevukhim on Metaphysical Knowledge -- 5. The Active Intellect as the Form that the Human Intellect Thinks -- Conjunction with the Active Intellect -- 6. The MannerWhereby Metaphysical Knowledge Can Be Acquired -- 7. Summary -- 7. A Problematic Sentence in Moreh nevukhim, ii. 24 -- 1. The Setting -- 2. The Problematic Sentence -- 3. Ibn Tibbon's Emendation -- 4. Other Proposed Solutions -- 5. The Solution -- 8. Maimonides' Ethical Systems -- 1. Commentary on the Mishnah -- Shemonah perakim -- 2. The Mishneh torah -- 3. Moreh nevukhim -- 4. Possible Explanations -- 5. The Closing Paragraphs of the Moreh nevukhim -- 6. Summary -- 9. Maimonides the Rationalist -- 1. Rationalist Exegesis of Scripture -- 2. Rationalist Exegesis of Aggadah -- 3. Rationalism and Halakhah -- 4. Monotheism and History -- 5. IntellectualWorship of God -- Works Cited -- Index
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781906764777
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Davidson, Herbert A Maimonides the Rationalist London : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, The,c2011 ISBN 9781906764777
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