Maimonides' Ethics: The Encounter of Philosophic and Religious Morality

by Raymond L. Weiss

In this book Raymond L. Weiss examines how a seminal Jewish thinker negotiates the philosophical conflict between Athens and Jerusalem in the crucial area of ethics. Maimonides, a master of both the classical and the biblical-rabbinic traditions, reconciled their differing views of morality primarily in the context of Jewish jurisprudence. Taking into consideration the entire corpus of Maimonides' writings, Weiss focuses on the ethical sections of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226891526
• ISBN13: 9780226891521
• Release Date: October 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"