The Many Faces of Maimonides / / Dov Schwartz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Schwartz, Dov,
• TeilnehmendeR: Stein, Batya.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The Passion for Metaphysics --; 2. The Separate Intellects --; 3. Astral Magic and the Law --; 4. Idolatry as Mediation --; 5. Immortality and Imagination --; 6. Maimonides: A Philosophical Theologian --; Epilogue --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618117816; 9783110688184
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618117816
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Dov Schwartz.

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.