Maimonides and Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Philosophical Issues in Maimonides

   1. The Philosophical Purport of Maimonides’ Halachic Works and the Purport of The Guide of the Perplexed

      • Shlomo Pines

      Pages 1-14

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   2. Rationality and Revelation in Maimonides’ Thought

      • Eliezer Goldman

      Pages 15-22

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   3. Maimonides’ True Belief Concerning God

      • Alvin J. Reines

      Pages 24-34

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   4. Remarks on Maimonides’ Epistemology

      • Abraham Nuriel

      Pages 36-50

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   5. Aristotle on Eternity: Does Maimonides Have a Reply?

      • Jonathan W. Malino

      Pages 52-64

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   6. The Creation of the World and Maimonides’ Interpretation of Gen. I-V

      • Sara Klein-Braslavy

      Pages 65-78

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   7. Sitre ‘Arayot in Maimonides’ Thought

      • Moshe Idel

      Pages 79-91

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   8. The Idea of a Hoq in Maimonides’ Explanation of the Law

      • Josef Stern

      Pages 92-130

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   9. Ethics and Meta-Ethics, Aesthetics and Meta-Aesthetics in Maimonides

      • Warren Zev Harvey

      Pages 131-138

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3. The Greco-Arabic Philosophical Context

   1. Islamic and Greek Influences on Maimonides’ Philosophy

      • Alfred L. Ivry

      Pages 139-156

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   2. Maimonides on Causality

      • Arthur Hyman

      Pages 157-172

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   3. Songe et prophétie chez Maïmonide et dans la tradition philosophique qui l’inspira

      • Massimo Jevolella

      Pages 173-184

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   4. Prophecy in al-Farabi and Maimonides: The Imaginative and Rational Faculties

      • Jeffrey Macy

      Pages 185-201

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   5. Aspects of Ibn Bajja’s Theory of Apprehension

      • Michael Blaustein

      Pages 202-212

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   6. Maimonides and Averroes on the First Mover

      • Josep Puig

      Pages 213-222

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4. Maimonides’ Ideas: Attitudes and Interpretations

   1. Maimonides and Latin Scholasticism

      • Wolfgang Kluxen

      Pages 224-232

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   2. Are the Founders of Religions Impostors?

      • Friedrich Niewöhner

      Pages 233-244

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   3. Leo Strauss et Maïmonide

      • Rémi Brague

      Pages 246-268

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   4. God’s Transcendence and its Schematization

      • Yirmiyahu Yovel

      Pages 269-282

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In the year 1985, presumed to mark the 850th anniversary of Maimonides' birth, the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter was dedicated to Maim­ onides as philosopher. We did not enter into the other aspects of his work, rabbinical, legal, medical, etc., except in so far as the relation between his philosophy and his work in halakha (Jewish law) is itself a philosophical question. That no one is quite certain about Maimonides' date of birth is symbolic of the state of his philosophy as well. Maimonides' thought poses various enigmas, lends itself to contradictory interpretations and gives rise today, as it did in the Middle Ages, to sustained controversies. Some of the contribu­ tions to the present volume deal with these and cognate topics. Others deal with certain aspects of the philosophical tradition in which Maimonides was rooted, with some traits peculiar to the Islamic society in the midst of which he lived, and with his influence on Christian scholasticism. Maimonides' thought had many facets, and for this and other reasons the question as to his place and stature in the history of philosophy admits of no simple answer. In this volume an attempt has been made to draw atten­ tion to some of these complexities.

• Maimonides
• Scholasticism
• aesthetics
• causality
• epistemology
• ethics
• idea of a Hoq
• latin scholasticism
• meta-aesthetics
• meta-ethics
• rationality

• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

  Shlomo Pines, Yirmiyahu Yovel

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