McCallum Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed

Silence and Salvation
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-1-134-10336-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death.

The author examines the apparent tensions and contradictions in the Guide and explains them in terms of a modern philosophical interpretation rather than as evidence of some esoteric meaning hidden in the text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCallum, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Mittelalterliche & Scholastische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Leo Strauss and Oliver Leaman on How to Read the Guide 2. What we can say about God – The Philosophical Theology of the Guide 3. What we can say about Creation – Marvin Fox on How to Read the Guide 4. Using Wittgenstein’s Tractatus to Approach the Guide 5. A Reconstruction of the Soteriology of the Guide 6. A Reconstruction of the Soteriology of the Guide – Some Further Details 7. Showing that which cannot be said – In Tolstoy and in the Torah

Über Autor(innen)

Donald McCallum received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Manchester and now works as a civil servant. His research interests are in the areas of mediaeval philosophy, especially in the Jewish tradition, Spinoza and Schopenhauer.