Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest

by David Hartman

Overview

In this original study, noted scholar and theologian David Hartman discusses the relation between Maimonides' halakhic writings and The Guide of the Perplexed -- the connection is much closer than is generally supposed. Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest demonstrates that Maimonides' total phiosophic endeavor was an attempt to show how the free search for truth, established through the study of logic, physics, and metaphysics, can live harmoniously with a way of life defined by the normative traditions of Judaism.

This pioneering work, originally published by JPS in 1976, earned Dr. Hartman a National Jewish Book Award for a book on Jewish thought.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780827602557
Publisher:	The Jewish Publication Society
Publication date:	01/01/1977
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	vii
	Foreword	xi
	Introduction: Multiple Responses to the Conflict of Philosophy and Halakhah	3
1	Philosophy in Maimonides' Legal Works	28
2	Halakhic and Aggadic Categories and Their Relationship to Philosophic Spirituality	66
3	Reason and Traditional Authority within Halakhah and Philosophy	102
4	The Philosophic Religious Sensibility	139
5	Morality and the Passionate Love for God	187
	Notes	215
	Selected Bibliography	269
	Index	289