Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed is generally read as an attempt either to harmonize reason and revelation or to show that they are irreconcilable. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this famously enigmatic work is the tension between human matter and form: the body and intellect.
| ISBN: | 9780674075948 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 2013 |
| Author: | Stern, Josef |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Ebook |