The Matter and Form of Maimonides' "Guide"
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2013
448 pages
978-0-674-07594-8 (ISBN)
Description
Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed is generally read as an attempt either to harmonize reason and revelation or to show that they are irreconcilable. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this famously enigmatic work is the tension between human matter and form: the body and intellect.
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Josef Stern is William H. Colvin Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.
Josef Stern is William H. Colvin Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago and Director of the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Editions and Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Primary Sources
- 1. Matter and Form
- 2. Maimonides' Theory of the Parable
- 3. The Parable of Adamic Perfection
- 4. Physical Matter and Its Limitations on Intellects
- 5. Maimonidean Skepticism I
- 6. Maimonidean Skepticism II
- 7. In the Inner Chamber of the Ruler's Palace: The Critique of the Theory of Separate Intellects
- 8. The Embodied Life of an Intellect
- 9. Excrement and Exegesis, or Shame over Matter
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Index
