Maimonides the rationalist / Herbert A. Davidson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davidson, Herbert A. (Herbert Alan), 1932- author.

Series:

Liverpool scholarship online.

Liverpool scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.

Maimonides, Moses.

Jewish philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Portland, Or. : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2011.

Summary:

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, Maimoni.

Contents:

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 Period1. 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 Acquired7. 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 History5. IntellectualWorship of God; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Z.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Nov 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80034-007-9

1-909821-03-9

OCLC:

1048805944