Maimonides and the Sciences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Defining Maimonides’ Aristotelianism

   • Alexander Altmann

   Pages 1-7

3. Maimonides in Context

   • Joseph Agassi

   Pages 9-24

4. “…with All Your Heart and with All Your Soul…”: The Moral Psychology of the Shemonah Peraqim

   • Daniel H. Frank

   Pages 25-33

5. Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed and the Transmission of the Mathematical Tract “On Two Asymptotic Lines” in the Arabic, Latin and Hebrew Medieval Traditions

   • Gad Freudenthal

   Pages 35-56

6. Maimonidean Naturalism

   • L. E. Goodman

   Pages 57-85

7. Deus Sive Natura — The Metamorphosis of a Dictum from Maimonides to Spinoza

   • Moshe Idel

   Pages 87-110

8. Maimonides’ Use of (Aristotelian) Dialectic

   • Joel I. Kraemer

   Pages 111-130

9. Maimonides’ Repudiation of Astrology

   • Y. Tzvi Langermann

   Pages 131-157

10. Al-Sijzī and Maimonides: A Mathematical and Philosophical Commentary on Proposition II—14 in Apollonius’ Conic Sections

    • Roshdi Rashed

    Pages 159-172

11. Maimonides on Language and the Science of Language

    • Josef Stern

    Pages 173-226

12. Aspects of Maimonides’ Epistemology: Halakah and Science

    • Isadore Twersky

    Pages 227-243

13. Back Matter

    Pages 245-256

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In this book, 11 leading scholars contribute to the understanding of the scientific and philosophical works of Moses Maimonides (1135-1204), the most luminous Jewish intellectual since Talmudic times. Deeply learned in mathematics, astronomy, astrology (which he strongly rejected), logic, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and jurisprudence, and himself a practising physician, Maimonides flourished within the high Arabic culture of the 12th century, where he had momentous influence upon subsequent Jewish beliefs and behavior, upon ethical demands, and upon ritual traditions. For him, mastery of the sciences was indispensable in the process of religious fulfilment.

• Arabic
• Lenn Evan Goodman
• Maimonides
• Spinoza
• astronomy
• dialectic
• epistemology
• film
• logic
• mathematics
• naturalism
• philosophical works
• philosophy
• proposition
• tradition

• Boston University, USA

  Robert S. Cohen, Hillel Levine

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