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 | | The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides ISBN-10: 9780872203242 ISBN-10: 0-87220-324-7 ISBN-13: 9780872203242 ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-324-2 Paperback 1995-10-01 Hackett Pub Co Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
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About the University of Chicago Edition The University of Chicago Edition in trade paperback is in two handsome volumes: a gold and a green trade paperback. Here's blurbage from the back: "This work by Pines and Strauss must be recognized as one of the most important contributions to the study of Maimonides in the present century. The translation is of a quality unequalled in a modern language." - Journal of the History of Philosophy "Leo Strauss' penetrating essay alone would give high value to this volume.... On the other hand, whithout this essay the new translation would make this an important book that is unlikely to be surpassed for a long time." - Times Literary Supplement "Competent Reviewers have without exception praised this translation.... As a whole, the book is simply indispensable." - The Modern Schoolman | ||
About the University of Chicago Editions (Pines and Strauss) The University of Chicago Edition in trade paperback is in two handsome volumes: a gold and a green trade paperback. Here's blurbage from the back: "This work by Pines and Strauss must be recognized as one of the most important contributions to the study of Maimonides in the present century. The translation is of a quality unequalled in a modern language." - Journal of the History of Philosophy "Leo Strauss' penetrating essay alone would give high value to this volume.... On the other hand, whithout this essay the new translation would make this an important book that is unlikely to be surpassed for a long time." - Times Literary Supplement "Competent Reviewers have without exception praised this translation.... As a whole, the book is simply indispensable." - The Modern Schoolman | ||
No editing, please Maimonides is one of those authors whose works should not be edited. The whole thing or nothing. Guide is not simply a collection of Rabbinic opinions from the time of AKIBA more or less. M-Torah is much more of that sort than Guide. There is a line from Akiba through Maimonides to Spinoza to the age of modern science. M-Torah can be read without belief that Maimonides held to a single metaphysical word. No so Guide. The fact that Nachmonides cites Guide in refuting the eternality of the universe indicates the teachings of Nachmonides and aaan iol-consssidered position by Maimonides, not that he accepted Prophets over Aristotle, but that he offeres as "evidence" that Aristotle's version requires no supernaaturalism. I must think that Maimonides must have been in dispair over the absurdity of his argument. | ||
Guide unread Haven't had time to read it. It WAS poorly packed and the cover and some pages were folded back. | ||
A clear guide to contemporary difficult questions I found this book clear and directly related to questions that perplexed me. Often Maimonides' answers are more clear and direct than anything I ever heared. I was most impressed by his explanation for the original sin and for Adam expulsion from paradise. Of course, it had nothing to do with sex. The sin was in that God gave the mind to Adam to think for himself. But thinking is too hard. Adam refused to think. Instead he ate from the tree of knowledge, that is he acquired "shortcuts," "rules of thumb," ready made rules accumulated in culture throughout millenia. These rules are sound and safe, but it is not the ultimate demand of God. In contemporary science language, Adam refused to think by using his cortex (contemporary part of the brain), instead, he learned to use primitive emotions involving amigdala (ancient part of the brain). | ||