Ethics of Maimonides

by Hermann Cohen

Book Overview

Hermann Cohen's essay on Maimonides' ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and her own extensive commentary on this landmark 1908 work, which inspired readings of medieval and rabbinic sources by Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas.
Cohen rejects the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299177602
• ISBN13: 9780299177607
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"