Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Eric Chaim Kline, Bookseller

Charakteristik der Ethik Maimunis (Sonderabdruck aus Moses Ben Maimon, Band 1)

Leipzig: Buchhandlung Gustav Fock, 1908. Softcover. 8vo. 63-134pp. Original wraps. The 1908 essay Ethics of Maimonides is one of Hermann Cohen's central teachings of this new thinking. Part of the series "Schriften; Herausgegeben von der Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaft des Judentums." Age wear, sunning and creasing on wraps. Tape remnants on front and back wrapper. Wrappers detached, sections of pages detached from book block. Writing by previous owner on front wrapper. Poor condition. Scarce. poor. Item #24227

R. Moses Maimonides (Rambam) was a 12th century Jewish philosopher and halachic legal scholar. A highly controversial figure, both during his lifetime and after his death, but generally acknowledged as the preeminent Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages. He was born in Córdoba, Spain but fled as a child from the Almohad persecution. He eventually settled in Egypt where he served as a rabbi, physician and philosopher. His fourteen-volume Mishneh Torah, his only work not in Arabic, still carries canonical authority, particularly within the Yemenite Jewish community, as the codification of Talmudic law. His other work includes a commentary on the Mishnah entitled Kitab al-Siraj, Kitab al-Fara'I, a book on precepts, and the philosophical work Dalalat al-Ha'irin, known in Hebrew as the Moreh Nevukhim, The Guide to the Perplexed. The major premise is an attempted philosophical/theological reconciliation of the Hebrew Bible and Greek knowledge. This work came to play a central role in all subsequent major controversies over philosophy within the Jewish community during the Middle Ages.

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