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Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest »

Book cover image of Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest by David Hartman

Authors: David Hartman, Shlomo Pines
ISBN-13: 9780827602557, ISBN-10: 0827602553
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
Date Published: November 1976
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: David Hartman

Book Synopsis

Maimonides's total philosophy shows how the search for truth, based onlogic, physics, and metaphysics, is compatible with Judaism.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsvii
Forewordxi
Introduction: Multiple Responses to the Conflict of Philosophy and Halakhah3
1Philosophy in Maimonides' Legal Works28
2Halakhic and Aggadic Categories and Their Relationship to Philosophic Spirituality66
3Reason and Traditional Authority within Halakhah and Philosophy102
4The Philosophic Religious Sensibility139
5Morality and the Passionate Love for God187
Notes215
Selected Bibliography269
Index289

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