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Maimonides and Spinoza

Name: Maimonides and Spinoza
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226645742
Price: 287.37 RON
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Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature

Autor: Joshua Parens

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Editura: The University of Chicago Press

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Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and...

Informații despre carte

Autor

Joshua Parens

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2012

Pagini

240

EAN

9780226645742

ISBN

0226645746

Enbook ID

04548220

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

510

Dimensiuni

162 x 239 x 23

Descriere completă

Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza - as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization - among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact much closer than was previously thought. In his perceptive new book, Joshua Parens sets out to challenge the now predominant view of Maimonides as a protomodern forerunner to Spinoza - and to show that a chief reason to read Maimonides is in fact to gain distance from our progressively secularized worldview. Turning the focus from Spinoza's oft-analyzed "Theologico-Political Treatise", this book has at its heart a nuanced analysis of his theory of human nature in the Ethics. Viewing this work in contrast to Maimonides' "Guide of the Perplexed", it makes clear that Spinoza can no longer be thought of as the founder of modern Jewish identity, nor should Maimonides be thought of as having paved the way for a modern secular worldview. Maimonides and Spinoza dramatically revises our understanding of both philosophers.