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A Guide to the Guide to the Perplexed : A Reader's Companion to Maimonides' Masterwork / Lenn Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Lenn, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jewish philosophy--Early works to 1800.
- Jewish philosophy.
- Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204. Dalālat al-ḥāʼirīn.
- Maimonides, Moses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (272 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- "In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late twelfth century, Maimonides' Guide aims to help religiously committed readers who are alive to the challenges posed by reason and the natural sciences to biblical and rabbinic tradition. Keyed to the new translation and commentary by Lenn E. Goodman and Phillip I. Lieberman, this volume follows Maimonides' life and learning and delves into the text of the Guide, clearly explaining just what Maimonides means by identifying the Talmudic Ma'aseh Bereshit and Ma'aseh Merkavah with physics and metaphysics (to Maimonides, biblical cosmology and theology). Exploring Maimonides' treatments of revelation, religious practice and experience, law and ritual, the problem of evil, and the rational purposes of the commandments, this guide to the Guide explains the tactics Maimonides deployed to ensure that readers not get in over their heads when venturing into philosophical deep waters"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Two Notes to the Reader
- Introduction
- Part I: Building Blocks
- 1. Setting the Scene
- 2. Learning
- 3. Cairo
- 4. A New Life
- 5. Believing
- Part II: The Work of the Guide
- 6. Defining the Issues
- 7. Problematics
- Part III: Esoterics
- 8. The Esoteric Style
- 9. Not Philosophy?
- 10. Breadcrumbs
- Conclusion: The Guide Today
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781503637481
- 1503637484
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