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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2006
      September 2005
      ISBN:
      9781139000819
      9780521819749
      9780521525787
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CCOL0521819741
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.677kg, 424 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.565kg, 424 Pages
      • Subjects:
      History of Philosophy, Judaism, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
      Collection:
      The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
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    Subjects:
    History of Philosophy, Judaism, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Collection:
    The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion
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    One aim of this series is to dispel the intimidation readers feel when faced with the work of difficult and challenging thinkers. Moses ben Maimon, also known as Maimonides (1138–1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the middle ages. He played a pivotal role in the transition of philosophy from the Islamic East to the Christian West. His greatest philosophical work, The Guide of the Perplexed, had a decisive impact on all subsequent Jewish thought and is still the subject of intense scholarly debate. An enigmatic figure, Maimonides continues to defy simple attempts at classification. The twelve essays in this volume offer a lucid and comprehensive treatment of his life and thought. They cover the sources on which Maimonides drew, his contributions to philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, and Bible commentary, as well as his esoteric writing style and influence on later thinkers.

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