Maimonides' Ethics The Encounter of Philosophic and Religious Morality

Name: Maimonides' Ethics The Encounter of Philosophic and Religious Morality
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ISBN: 9780226891521

ISBN-10: 0226891526

ISBN-13: 9780226891521

Edition: 1991

Authors: Raymond L. Weiss

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In this book Raymond L. Weiss examines how a seminal Jewish thinker negotiates the philosophical conflict between Athens and Jerusalem in the crucial area of ethics. Maimonides, a master of both the classical and the biblical-rabbinic traditions, reconciled their differing views of morality primarily in the context of Jewish jurisprudence. Taking into consideration the entire corpus of Maimonides' writings, Weiss focuses on the ethical sections of the Commentary on the Mishnah and the Mishneh Torah, but also discusses the Guide of the Perplexed, the letters of Maimonides, and his medical works. The gulf between classical philosophy and the Torah made the task of Maimonides extraordinarily…

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List price: $64.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/25/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 234
Size: 0.57" wide x 0.88" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations and a Note on the Text Introduction



The Commentary on the Mishnah



Eight Chapters: The Adaptation of Philosophic Ethics to the Jewish Community



The Religious Morality: Piety



Philosophic Ethics and the Commandments



The Mishneh Torah



Introduction to the Ethics of the Code



The ""Laws Concerning Character Traits"" (Hilkhot De'ot): Philosophic Ethics and Piety



The Commandments in the ""Laws Concerning Character Traits""



Additional Moral and Religious Teachings in