Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed is a classic of world
philosophy. Written in Arabic and completed around 1190, the work
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.
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