Interpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral PhilosophyIn this comprehensive study, Marvin Fox offers an approach to Maimonides that illuminates the intersections of his philosophical, religious, and Jewish visions and addresses the dialectical tension in his work between the claims of reason and revelation. |
Contents
1 The ManySided Maimonides | 3 |
2 The Range and Limits of Reason | 26 |
3 The Esoteric Method | 47 |
A New View | 67 |
Part II Aspects of Maimonides Ethical Theory | 91 |
A Comparative Study | 93 |
6 Maimonides and Aquinas on Natural Law | 124 |
A Reading of Guide I 12 | 152 |
8 Maimonides Views on the Relations of Law and Morality | 199 |
Part III Some Problems of Metaphysics and Religion in the Thought of Maimonides | 227 |
9 Maimonides Account of Divine Casuality | 229 |
God in Relation to the World | 251 |
11 Prayer and the Religious Life | 297 |
The Significance of Maimonides for Contemporary Judaism | 323 |
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