Cohen, Hermann.

Ethics of Maimonides. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (307 pages) - Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies . - Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies .

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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Cohen, Hermann,-1842-1918.-Charakteristik der Ethik Maïmunis.
Maimonides, Moses,-1135-1204-Ethics.
Jewish ethics.
Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Medieval.


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