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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.
Moses Maimonides (1138-1204), physician, scientist, astronomer,
philosopher, and theologian, emerged as a halakhist through his
classic work, Commentary on the Mishnah, in which he sets out to
explain to the layman the meaning and the purpose of the Mishnah,
while bypassing the often complicated and concentrated discussions
of the Gemara. It was Maimonides' wish to popularize the Mishnah
and to make it easily accessible to the general reader. He did so
by extracting the underlying principles involved in lengthy, often
abstract, talmudic discussions and stating the halakhic decisions
derived therein, interspersing them with ethical insights and
philosophical teachings.
This superb abridgement and annotated translation of Maimonides'
monumental work includes discussions of divine language, the scope
and limits of human knowledge, cosmological doctrines concerning
the creation or eternity of the world, prophecy and providence, the
nature and purpose of divine law, and moral and political
philosophy.
Great classic of medieval Judaism, major attempt to reconcile revealed religion (Pentateuch, commentaries) and Aristotelian philosophy. Enormously important in all Western thought. Unabridged Friedlander translation. 50-page introduction. "...a great influence on Jewish and Christian scholasticism."-Jewish Civic Press.
This fourth volume of the critical edition of the medical aphorisms
compiled by Maimonides (1138-1204) covers treatises sixteen to
twenty-one. The central subjects of these treatises include women's
diseases, physical exercise, bathing, foods, and the consumption of
drugs. Most of the aphorisms featured in this volume are based on
the works of Galen, but Maimonides also quotes from other ancient
and medieval physicians, including some whose work does not survive
in any other source. This edition provides both the Arabic text and
an authoritative English translation by Gerrit Bos in
parallel-column format.
This monument of rabbinical exegesis, written at the end of the
twelfth century, has exerted an immense and continuing influence
upon Jewish thought. It has also been a formative element in the
thinking of leading Christian writers and philosophers down through
the seventeenth century. The Guide is not a philosophical treatise.
Rather, its aim is to liberate men from the tormenting perplexities
arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its
literal meaning.
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Theological Works of Dr. Pocock, Containing his Porta Mosis, and English Commentaries on Hosea, Joel, Micah, and Malachi, to Which is Prefixed an Account of his Life and Writings, Never Before Printed; With the Addition of a new General Index to the Comme (Hardcover)
Moses Maimonides, Leonard Twells, Edward Pococke
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