Interpreting Maimonides
by Fox, MarvinEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Chicago Pr
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Summary
In this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Moses Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions--ideas that have embattled readers of Maimonides since the twelfth century.
Author Biography
Marvin Fox is Philip W. Lown Professor Emeritus of Jewish Philosophy at Brandeis University and professor of philosophy and religion at Boston University.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| On Reading Maimonides | |
| The Many-Sided Maimonides | |
| The Range and Limits of Reason | |
| The Esoteric Method | |
| Maimonides' Method of Contradictions: A New View | |
| Aspects of Maimonides' Ethical Theory | |
| The Doctrine of the Mean in Aristotle and Maimonides: A Comparative Study | |
| Maimonides and Aquinas on Natural Law | |
| The Nature of Man and the Foundations of Ethics: A Reading of Guide, I,1-2 | |
| Maimonides' Views on the Relations of Law and Morality | |
| Some Problems of Metaphysics and Religion in the Thought of Maimonides | |
| Maimonides' Account of Divine Causality | |
| Creation or Eternity: God in Relation to the World | |
| Prayer and the Religious Life | |
| Epilogue: The Significance of Maimonides for Contemporary Judaism | |
| Index | |
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