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Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed: A Critical Guide

By Daniel Frank and Aaron Segal

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781108480512, 9781108575324
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2498390 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Critical Guides
Pages
316\328
Time added
2021-08-11 03:32:35

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Moses Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed (c. 1190) is the greatest and most influential text in the history of Jewish philosophy. Controversial in its day, the Guide directly influenced Aquinas, Spinoza, and Leibniz, and the history of Jewish philosophy took a decisive turn after its appearance. While there continues to be keen interest in Maimonides and his philosophy, this is the first scholarly collection in English devoted specifically to the Guide. It includes contributions from an international team of scholars addressing the most important philosophical themes that range over the three parts of this sprawling work - including topics in the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of law, ethics, and political philosophy. There are also essays on the Guide's hermeneutic puzzles, and on its overall structure and philosophical trajectory. The volume will be of interest to philosophers, Judaists, theologians, and medievalists. Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Contents List of Contributors Introduction Part I Form Chapter 1 The Structure and Purpose of the Guide 1.1 R. Joseph and His Perplexity 1.2 The Trajectory of the Guide 1.3 Good, but Not Wise: Job and R. Joseph Chapter 2 The Guide as Biblical Commentary 2.1 Introduction 2.2 What and Who Are Commentaries for? 2.3 The Guide as a Conceptual Commentary 2.4 The Guide as a Formal Commentary 2.5 Conclusion Part II Human Beginnings Chapter 3 Paradise and the Fall Chapter 4 Maimonides on the Nature of Good and Evil 4.1 Maimonides the Non-Cognitivist? 4.2 Maimonides the Weak Cognitivist? 4.3 Maimonides the Strong Cognitivist? 4.4 The Ethics of Intellectual Perfection 4.5 Conclusion Part III The Creator Chapter 5 The Scope of Metaphysics 5.1 The Account of the Chariot and Ezekiel's Vision of the Chariot Chapter 6 His Existence Is Essentiality: Maimonides as Metaphysician 6.1 Metaphysical Maimonides 6.2 The Claims and Arguments 6.3 The Puzzles 6.4 Extant Resolutions 6.4.1 Go Radical 6.4.2 Go Conservative 6.5 New Resolution: Go Maimonidean 6.5.1 Predicates and Attributes 6.5.2 What Is ''Pure Equivocation''? 6.5.3 The View 6.5.4 Puzzles Resolved 6.6 Conclusion Chapter 7 ''Whereof One Cannot Speak'' 7.1 Maimonides' Theory of Divine Ineffability 7.2 The Puzzle of Incomprehensible Knowledge 7.3 Non-propositional Knowledge 7.3.1 Knowledge-how 7.3.2 Phenomenal Knowledge 7.3.3 Indexical Knowledge 7.4 Non-propositional Knowledge and Apophaticism 7.5 Conclusion: Apophaticism and Objectivity Part IV The Created Chapter 8 Creation and Miracles in the Guide 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Creation 8.3 Creation and Miracles 8.4 Conclusion Chapter 9 The Prophetic Method in the Guide 9.1 Background 9.1.1 Constraints from Jewish Theology 9.1.2 Method Individuation 9.1.3 Maimonides' Cognitive Psychology 9.1.4 Maimonides' Epistemology 9.2 The Prophetic Method 9.2.1 Component 1: Emanation (e) 9.2.2 Component 2: Rationalized Emanation (RE) 9.2.3 Component 3: The Perfect Imagination (PI) 9.2.4 Component 3: Rationalized Impressions (RI) 9.2.4.1 Maimonides on Method Individuation 9.2.4.2 Parabolic and Non-Parabolic Prophecy 9.2.4.3 Extended and Non-Extended Parabolic Rationalized Impressions 9.3 Components 4 and 5: Memory and Output Beliefs 9.3.1 Contra Belief Formation in Component 3 9.3.1.1 The Coherence Argument 9.3.1.2 The Negative Theology Argument 9.3.2 Contra Belief Formation in Component 2 9.3.2.1 The Extended Parable Argument 9.3.2.2 The Non-Extended Parable Argument 9.3.3 The General Argument 9.4 The Epistemology of Prophecy Chapter 10 Maimonides' Modalities 10.1 The Logic of the Modalities 10.2 Guide 2.14: Possibility as Potentiality, Necessity as Actuality 10.3 Necessitation versus Purposeful Particularization: Guide 2.19-22 10.4 Avicenna and the Possible/Necessary of Existence and in Virtue of Itself/through a Cause 10.5 The Falasifa versus the Mutakallimun on Possibility and Necessity 10.6 Summing up Part V Human Finitude Chapter 11 Maimonides' Critique of Anthropocentrism and Teleology 11.1 Preamble 11.2 Aristotle on Teleology I 11.3 Digression: An Aristotelian Proof for Creation 11.4 Aristotle on Teleology II 11.5 The Law on Teleology 11.6 Biblical Proof Texts 11.7 Conclusion Chapter 12 Maimonides and the Problem(s) of Evil 12.1 What Is Maimonides' Problem with Evil? 12.2 Matter and the Inexorability of Evil 12.3 Naturalistic Justice 12.4 Egocentrism and Anthropocentrism (Guide 3.12) 12.5 Conclusion Part VI Human Ends Chapter 13 The Nature and Purpose of Divine Law 13.1 The Source and Goal of the Law 13.2 Creation and the Law 13.3 Idolatry and the Law 13.4 Divine Names and the Occult Chapter 14 Maimonides on Human Perfection and the Love of God 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Predecessors 14.3 Love of God in the Mishneh Torah 14.4 Love of God in the Guide 14.5 Intellectual Perfection in the Guide 14.6 Love and Knowledge 14.7 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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