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Ethics of Maimonides.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical StudiesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (307 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299177638
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ethics of MaimonidesDDC classification:
  • 296.3/6/092
LOC classification:
  • BJ1287
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Socrates and Plato: Founders of Ethics -- 2. Maimonides: A Radical Platonist -- 3. The Good beyond Being:Ethico-Political Intricacies of a Medieval Debate -- 4. Religion as Idolatry: How (Not) to Know God -- 5. The "Unity of the Heart": On Love and Longing (Where Ethical Method Fails) -- 6. Practice and Performance: How (Not) to Walk in Middle Ways -- 7. "He Is (Not) Like You": How Suffering Commands Self or Soul -- 8. On Eudaemonian Eschatology and Holy History: Zionism as Betrayal of the Ideal -- 9. To Create Messianic Time: A Jewish Critique of Political Utopia -- 10. The Human Face: Anticipating a Future that Is Prior to the Past -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Socrates and Plato: Founders of Ethics -- 2. Maimonides: A Radical Platonist -- 3. The Good beyond Being:Ethico-Political Intricacies of a Medieval Debate -- 4. Religion as Idolatry: How (Not) to Know God -- 5. The "Unity of the Heart": On Love and Longing (Where Ethical Method Fails) -- 6. Practice and Performance: How (Not) to Walk in Middle Ways -- 7. "He Is (Not) Like You": How Suffering Commands Self or Soul -- 8. On Eudaemonian Eschatology and Holy History: Zionism as Betrayal of the Ideal -- 9. To Create Messianic Time: A Jewish Critique of Political Utopia -- 10. The Human Face: Anticipating a Future that Is Prior to the Past -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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