| Description |
vii, 317 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-317). |
| Contents |
1. Issues of interpretation: Interpreting Maimonides / Arthur Hyman -- The literary character of the Guide for the perplexed / Leo Strauss -- The philosophical character of Maimonides' Guide -a critique of Strauss' interpretation / Joseph A. Buijs -- A third approach to Maimonides' cosmogony-prophetology puzzle / Warren Zev Harvey -- 2. Issues in epistemology and metaphysics: The limitations of human knowledge according to Al-Farabi, ibn Bajja and Maimonides / Shlomo Pines -- Maimonides' proofs for the existence of God / William Lane Craig -- Essence and existence in Maimonides / Alexander Altmann -- Maimonides on modes and universals / Harry A. Wolfson -- Providence, divine omniscience, and possibility: the case of Maimonides / Alfred L. Ivry -- 3. Issues in ethics, law, and politics: Maimonides, the disciple of Alfarabi / Lawrence V. Berman -- The purpose of the law according to Maimonides / Miriam Galston -- The doctrine of the mean in Aristotle and Maimonides: a comparative study / Marvin Fox -- 4. The influence of Maimonides: A scholastic misinterpretation of Maimonides' doctrine of divine attributes / Seymour Feldman -- Maimonides and Aquinas on man's knowledge of God: a twentieth century perspective / Isaac Franck. |
| Subject |
Maimonides, Moses, 1135-1204.
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Jewish philosophy.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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| Added Author |
Buijs, Joseph A.
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| ISBN |
0268013675: $29.95 |
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