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Maimonides and Philosophy

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  1. Shlomo Pines

    1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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  2. Yirmiyahu Yovel

    1. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  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

    2. Rationality and Revelation in Maimonides’ Thought

      • Eliezer Goldman
      Pages 15-22

    3. Maimonides’ True Belief Concerning God

      • Alvin J. Reines
      Pages 24-34

    4. Remarks on Maimonides’ Epistemology

      • Abraham Nuriel
      Pages 36-50

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

      • Jonathan W. Malino
      Pages 52-64

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

      • Sara Klein-Braslavy
      Pages 65-78

    7. Sitre ‘Arayot in Maimonides’ Thought

      • Moshe Idel
      Pages 79-91

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

      • Josef Stern
      Pages 92-130

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

      • Warren Zev Harvey
      Pages 131-138

  4. Maimonides’ Ideas: Attitudes and Interpretations

    1. Maimonides and Latin Scholasticism

      • Wolfgang Kluxen
      Pages 224-232

    2. Are the Founders of Religions Impostors?

      • Friedrich Niewöhner
      Pages 233-244

    3. Leo Strauss et Maïmonide

      • Rémi Brague
      Pages 246-268

    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.

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  • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

    Shlomo Pines, Yirmiyahu Yovel

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