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Maimonides the Rationalist (Paperback)
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Maimonides the Rationalist (Paperback)
Series: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
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Maimonides was not the first rabbinic scholar to take an interest
in philosophy, but he was unique in being a towering figure in both
areas. His law code, the Mishneh torah, stands with Rashi's
commentary on the Babylonian Talmud as one of the two most
intensely studied rabbinic works coming out of the Middle Ages,
while his Guide of the Perplexed is the most influential and widely
read Jewish philosophical work ever written. Admirers and critics
have arrived at wildly divergent perceptions of the man. We have
Maimonides the atheist or agnostic, Maimonides the sceptic,
Maimonides the deist, Maimonides the Aristotelian, the Averroist,
or proto-Kantian. We have a Maimonides seduced by the blandishments
of 'accursed philosophy'; a Maimonides who sowed the seeds that led
to Spanish Jews' loss of faith and mass apostasy and who was
therefore responsible for the demise of Spanish Jewry; a Maimonides
who incorporated philosophical elements into his rabbinic works and
wrote the Guide of the Perplexed not to propagate doctrines to
which he was personally committed but in order to rescue errant
souls seduced by philosophy; a Maimonides who was the defender of
the faith and defined the articles of Jewish belief for all time.
In his own estimation, Maimonides was neither exclusively a
dedicated philosopher nor exclusively a devoted rabbinist: he saw
philosophy and the Written and Oral Torahs as a single, harmonious
domain, and he believed that this view was similarly fundamental to
the lives of the prophets and rabbis of old. In this book, Herbert
Davidson examines Maimonides' efforts to reconstitute this
all-embracing, rationalist worldview that he felt had been lost
during the millennium-long exile.
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