These are accompanied by commentary and analysis, clarifying the complexities of his thought and providing the historical and religious background required by the modern lay reader.
Here is an accessible introduction to the life and wisdom of the famous twelfth-century philosopher-physician Moses Maimonides, whose prolific writings on medical and religious issues, commentaries on Jewish texts, and writings on Jewish ...
The Guide for the Perplexed consists of three works by Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, more commonly known as Moses Maimonides, which chart the relationship between philosophy and the Jewish religion.
This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.
The aim of the Guide, he wrote, is to probe the mysteries of physics and metaphysics. But mysteries, to Maimonides, were not conundrums to be celebrated for their obscurity. They were problems to be solved.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.