001479243 000__ 05502nam\a22010935i\4500 001479243 001__ 1479243 001479243 003__ DE-B1597 001479243 005__ 20231102084426.0 001479243 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479243 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479243 008__ 190708s2013\\\\mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479243 020__ $$a9780674075948 001479243 0247_ $$a10.4159/harvard.9780674075948$$2doi 001479243 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)209757 001479243 035__ $$a(OCoLC)843880820 001479243 035__ $$a(OCoLC)853239905 001479243 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479243 0410_ $$aeng 001479243 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479243 072_7 $$aPHI012000$$2bisacsh 001479243 08204 $$a181.06 001479243 1001_ $$aStern, Josef,$$eauthor. 001479243 24514 $$aThe Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide /$$cJosef Stern. 001479243 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c[2013] 001479243 264_4 $$c©2013 001479243 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479243 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479243 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479243 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479243 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479243 50500 $$tFrontmatter --$$tContents --$$tEditions and Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Primary Sources --$$t1. Matter and Form --$$t2. Maimonides' Theory of the Parable --$$t3. The Parable of Adamic Perfection --$$t4. Physical Matter and Its Limitations on Intellects --$$t5. Maimonidean Skepticism I --$$t6. Maimonidean Skepticism II --$$t7. In the Inner Chamber of the Ruler's Palace --$$t8. The Embodied Life of an Intellect --$$t9. Excrement and Exegesis, or Shame over Matter --$$tReferences --$$tAcknowledgments --$$tIndex 001479243 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479243 520__ $$aMaimonides' Guide of the Perplexed has traditionally been read as an attempt to harmonize reason and revelation. Another, more recent interpretation takes the contradiction between philosophy and religion to be irreconcilable, and concludes that the Guide prescribes religion for the masses and philosophy for the elite. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this famously enigmatic work is not the conflict between Athens and Jerusalem but the tension between human matter and form, between the body and the intellect. Maimonides' philosophical tradition takes the perfect life to be intellectual: pure, undivided contemplation of all possible truths, from physics and cosmology to metaphysics and God. According to the Guide, this ideal cannot be realized by humans. Their embodied minds cannot achieve scientific knowledge of metaphysics, and their bodily impulses interfere with exclusive contemplation. Closely analyzing the arguments in the Guide and its original use of the parable as a medium of philosophical writing, Stern articulates Maimonides' skepticism about human knowledge of metaphysics and his heterodox interpretations of scriptural and rabbinic parables. Stern shows how, in order to accommodate the conflicting demands of the intellect and the body, Maimonides creates a repertoire of spiritual exercises, reconceiving the Mosaic commandments as training for the life of the embodied mind. By focusing on the philosophical notions of matter and form, and the interplay between its literary form and subject matter, Stern succeeds in developing a unified, novel interpretation of the Guide. 001479243 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479243 546__ $$aIn English. 001479243 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) 001479243 650_0 $$aJewish philosophy. 001479243 650_0 $$aJudaism$$xDoctrines. 001479243 650_0 $$aPhilosophy, Medieval. 001479243 650_4 $$aPHILOSOPHY / Epistemology. 001479243 650_4 $$aPHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics. 001479243 650_4 $$aPHILOSOPHY / Religious. 001479243 650_4 $$aRELIGION / Judaism / Theology. 001479243 650_7 $$aPHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval.$$2bisacsh 001479243 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tE-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013$$z9783110317350$$oZDB-23-DGG 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tE-BOOK PACKAGE PHILOSOPHY 2013$$z9783110317329 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tE-BOOK PAKET PHILOSOPHIE 2013$$z9783110317312$$oZDB-23-DPH 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014$$z9783110374889 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package 2013$$z9783110374902 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014$$z9783110459517 001479243 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015$$z9783110662566 001479243 852__ $$bebk 001479243 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674075948$$zOnline Access 001479243 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479243$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479243 912__ $$a978-3-11-031732-9 E-BOOK PACKAGE PHILOSOPHY 2013$$b2013 001479243 912__ $$a978-3-11-037488-9 HUP Complete eBook Package 2011-2014 001479243 912__ $$a978-3-11-037490-2 HUP eBook Package 2013$$b2013 001479243 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 HUP eBook Package Backlist 2005-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479243 912__ $$a978-3-11-045951-7 HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014$$c2000$$d2014 001479243 912__ $$a978-3-11-066256-6 HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2015 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_CL_PLTLJSIS 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_PLTLJSIS 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479243 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479243 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479243 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479243 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479243 912__ $$aPDA14ALL 001479243 912__ $$aPDA16SSH 001479243 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479243 912__ $$aPDA1ALL 001479243 912__ $$aPDA2 001479243 912__ $$aPDA2HUM 001479243 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479243 912__ $$aPDA7ENG 001479243 912__ $$aPDA8HUP 001479243 912__ $$aZDB-23-DGG$$b2013 001479243 912__ $$aZDB-23-DPH$$b2013 001479243 980__ $$aBIB 001479243 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479243 982__ $$aEbook 001479243 983__ $$aOnline