The Many Faces of Maimonides

This volume offers a new reading of Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. In particular, it explores how Maimonides' commitment to integrity led him to a critique of the Kalām, to a complex concept of immortality, and to insight into the human yearning for metaphysical knowledge. Maimonides' search for objective truth is also analyzed in its connection with the scientific writings of his time, which neither the Kalām nor the Jewish philosophical tradition that preceded him had endorsed.

Through a careful analysis of these issues, this book seeks to contribute to the understanding of the modes of thought adopted in The Guide of the Perplexed, including the "philosophical theologian" model of Maimonides' own design, and to the knowledge of its sources.

Author: Dov Schwartz
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 03/08/2019
Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.42d
ISBN: 9781618119063