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Maimonides on the Origin of the World

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Although Maimonides' discussion of creation is one of his greatest contributions - he himself claims that belief in creation is second in importance only to belief in God - there is still considerable debate on what that contribution was. Kenneth Seeskin takes a close look at the problems Maimonides faced and the sources from which he drew. He argues that Maimonides meant exactly what he said: the world was created by a free act of God so that the existence of everything other than God is contingent. In religious terms, existence is a gift. In order to reach this conclusion, Seeskin examines Maimonides' view of God, miracles, the limits of human knowledge, and the claims of astronomy to be a science. Clearly written and closely argued, Maimonides on the Origin of the World takes up questions of perennial interest.
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  1. ISBN-10
    052184553X
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0521845533
  3. Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
  4. Publication date
    April 11, 2005
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
  7. Print length
    224 pages
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"This is an excellent piece of work, easily up to the usual high standard of the author's output. The topic is a very controversial one in Jewish philosophy...so it is a major point of interest in the area. What Seeskin does well is run through the whole philosophical background to the issue in Maimonides, in so far as it it impinged on him, and this is very useful. The discussion of the whole context within which Maimonides produced his views is uniformly rigorous, balanced, and enlightening."
-Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky

"...a brilliant book."
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"Seeskin's book is a solid contribution to the growing literature on the greatest of the medieval Jewish thinkers . . . "
-Daniel H. Frank, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"This is a lucid, learned, and valuable contribution to Maimonidean scholarship and a particularly useful book for teaching Maimonides to advance undergraduate and graduate students...Seeskin's recuperation of a more traditional Maimonides for whom divine will transcends divine wisdom has the double advantage of being interpretatively convincing while also bearing the promise of a Maimonidean phenomenology of creation as gift."
-Michael Fagenblat, Monash University, Journal of Medieval Studies

"...a forceful, learned and articulate presentation of the issue." --Alfred L. Ivry, New York University: Philosophy in Review

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Looks closely at the debates surrounding Maimonides' discussion of creation.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cambridge University Press (April 11, 2005)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 052184553X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0521845533
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1 x 9.25 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 4 ratings

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A very clearly written book on the issues. The exposition of Maimonides's views is also very well structured. However, the argument is sometimes thin
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Nurit Schaller
1.0 out of 5 stars nicht empfehlenswert
Reviewed in Germany on September 20, 2019
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Ich kann das Buch wissenschaftlich nicht weiterempfehlen.
Der Autor scheint weder zu wissen, daß Maimonides ein Vertreter des arabischen Neoplatonismus war - also ihm Texte Plotins und nicht Aristoteles' vorlagen, wodurch sich manche Fragestellungen des Buches gar nicht stellen - noch scheint er Bibelhebräisch zu können (er behauptet be-reshit in Bereshit 1;1 sei ein status constructus und nicht ein status absoluts, woraus er weitere Fragen aufwirft. Jeder Hebraist weiß, daß das Nomen sich im status absolutus befindet, kinderleicht). Normalerweise kann ich über 1-2 Fehler eines Autors hinwegsehen, allerdings dieses Buch konnte ich nicht mehr weiter lesen: jeder 2. Satz ein Grundsatzfehler.
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