Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide

ISBN-13: 9781108727600 / Miękka / 2023 / 326 str.

Opis

This is the first scholarly collection in English devoted to Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed.

Spis treści

Introduction Daniel Frank and Aaron Segal; Part I. Form: 1. The structure and purpose of the guide Daniel Frank; 2. The guide as biblical commentary Igor de Souza; Part II. Human beginnings: 3. Paradise and the fall Shira Weiss; 4. Maimonides on the nature of good and evil Daniel Rynhold; Part III. The creator: 5. The scope of metaphysics Daniel Davies and Charles H. Manekin; 6. His existence is essentiality: maimonides as metaphysician Aaron Segal; 7. 'Whereof one cannot speak' Silvia Jonas; Part IV. The created: 8. Creation and miracles in the guide T. M. Rudavsky; 9. The prophetic method Dani Rabinowitz; 10. Maimonides' modalities Josef Stern; Part V. Human finitude: 11. Maimonides' critique of anthropocentrism and teleology Warren Zev Harvey; 12. Maimonides and the problem(s) of evil David Shatz; Part VI. Human ends: 13. The nature and purpose of divine law Moshe Halbertal; 14. Maimonides on human perfection and the love of god Steven Nadler; Bibliography.