Binding: Hardcover
Description: A landmark new translation of the most significant text in medieval Jewish thought. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the Guide to the Perplexed is among the most powerful and influential living texts in Jewish philosophy a masterwork navigating the straits between religion and science logic and revelation. The author Rabbi Moses ben Maimon commonly known as Maimonides or as Rambam was a Sephardi Jewish philosopher jurist and physician. He wrote his Guide in the form of a letter to a disciple. But the perplexity it aimed to cure might strike anyone who sought to square logic mathematics and the sciences with biblical and rabbinic traditions. In this new translation by philosopher Lenn E. Goodman and historian Phillip I. Lieberman Maimonides warm conversational voice and clear explanatory language come through as never before in English. Maimonides knew well the challenges facing serious inquirers at the confluence of the two great streams of thought and learning that Arabic writers labeled 'aql and naql reason and tradition. The aim of the Guide he wrote is to probe the mysteries of physics and metaphysics. But mysteries to Maimonides were not conundrums to be celebrated for their obscurity. They were problems to be solved. Maimonides methods and insights resonate throughout the work of later Jewish thinkers rationalists and mystics and in the work of philosophers like Thomas Aquinas Spinoza Leibniz and Newton. The Guide continues to inspire inquiry discovery and vigorous debate among philosophers theologians and lay readers today. Goodman and Lieberman's extensive and detailed commentary provides readers with historical context and philosophical enlightenment giving generous access to the nuances complexities and profundities of what is widely agreed to be the most significant textual monument of medieval Jewish thought a work that still offers a key to those who hope to harmonize religious commitments and scientific understanding.
Title: The Guide To The Perplexed A New Translation
Author(s): Maimonides Moses
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Barcode: 9780804787383
Pages: 704 Pages, 1 Halftone
Publication Date: 5/28/2024
Category: Judaism: Theology