Maimonides the rationalist
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書誌事項
Maimonides the rationalist
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, in association with Liverpool University Press, 2015
- : pbk
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-312) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- Note on Transliteration Abbreviations and Note on Sources 1 The Study of Philosophy as a Religious Obligation 2 The First Two Positive Divine Commandments The 613 Commandments * Four Writers on the Commandments Prior to Maimonides * Maimonides * What Followed 3 Maimonides' Knowledge of the Philosophical Literature in his Rabbinic Period Background * Neoplatonism * Kalam * Aristotle * The Arabic Aristotelians * Summary 4 Maimonides' Eight Chapters and Alfarabi's Fusul Muntazaa 5 Maimonides' Knowledge of the Philosophical Literature of his Later Period Kalam * Aristotle * The Commentators on Aristotle * Other Greek Philosophers * The Arabic Philosophers * Medieval Jewish Thinkers * Summary 6 Maimonides on Metaphysical Knowledge Introduction * Alfarabi's Lost Commentary on the Nicomachean Ethics * Ibn Bajja's Positionon Metaphysical Knowledge * The Guide for the Perplexed on Metaphysical Knowledge * The Active Intellect as the Form that the Human Intellect Thinks
- Conjunction with the Active Intellect * The Manner Whereby Metaphysical Knowledge Can Be Acquired * Summary 7 A Problematic Sentence in Guide for the Perplexed, ii. 24 The Setting * The Problematic Sentence * Ibn Tibbon's Emendation * Other Proposed Solutions * The Solution 8 Maimonides' Ethical Systems Commentary on the Mishnah
- the Eight Chapters * The Mishneh torah * The Guide for the Perplexed * Possible Explanations * The Closing Paragraphs of the Guide for the Perplexed * Summary 9 Maimonides the Rationalist Rationalist Exegesis of Scripture * Rationalist Exegesis of Aggadah * Rationalism and Halakhah * Monotheism and History * Intellectual Worship of God Works Cited Index
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