Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction 1. Leo Strauss and Oliver Leaman on How to Read the Guide 2. What we can say about God - The Philosophical Theology of the Guide 3. What we can say about Creation - Marvin Fox on How to Read the Guide 4. Using Wittgenstein's Tractatus to Approach the Guide 5. A Reconstruction of the Soteriology of the Guide 6. A Reconstruction of the Soteriology of the Guide - Some Further Details 7. Showing that which cannot be said - In Tolstoy and in the Torah