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Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed: Silence and Salvation
Author(s): Donald McCallum (Author)
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 23 Jun. 2010
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 200 pages
- ISBN-10: 0415593395
- ISBN-13: 9780415593397
Book Description
Providing an excellent overview of the latest thinking in Maimonides studies, this book uses a novel philosophical approach to examine whether Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed contains a naturalistic doctrine of salvation after death. The author examines the apparent tensions and contradictions in the Guide and explains them in terms of a modern philosophical interpretation rather than as evidence of some esoteric meaning hidden in the text.
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About the Author
Donald McCallum received a Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Manchester and now works as a civil servant. His research interests are in the areas of mediaeval philosophy, especially in the Jewish tradition, Spinoza and Schopenhauer.
