Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Silence and Salvation

ISBN-13: 9780415593397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 186 str.

Donald McCallum;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

David McCallum uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether 'Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed' contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death. He examines the apparent tensions and contradictions in the guide and explains them in terms of a modern philosophical interpretation.

Spis treści

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 

O autorze

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.