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With extraordinary chutzpa and deep philosophical seriousness, Solomon ben Joshua of Lithuania renamed himself after his medieval intellectual hero, Moses Maimonides. Maimon was perhaps the most brilliant and certainly the most controversial figure of the late-eighteenth century Jewish Enlightenment. He scandalized rabbinic authorities, embarrassed Moses Mendelssohn, provoked Kant, charmed Goethe, and inspired Fichte, among others. This is the first study of Maimon to integrate his idiosyncratic philosophical idealism with his popular autobiography, and with his early unpublished exegetical, mystical, and Maimonidean work in Hebrew. In doing so, it illuminates the intellectual and spiritual possibilities open to a European Jew at the turn of the eighteenth century 

Judaism Heresy and Philosophy 1st Table of contents:

I. Introduction
II. Divine Knowledge and Immanence ? Averroes? Influence
Avicenna and Averroes
Objections to ?Homonymy? ? Gersonides
God is the Totality of Existents – Moses Narboni, Prat Maimon 
Two Kinds of Existence – Joseph ibn Shem Tov
God as the Perfect Existence – Samuel ibn Zarza and Abraham Bibago
III. The Power of Terminology – Ibn Ezra and After
IV. The Last Phase
CHAPTER TWO. TELEOLOGY
I. Final Cause and Creation
The Aristotelian Sources 
The Final Cause of All that Exists and of the Species
Defense of the Argument against the Purposiveness of Reality
Man as the Goal of the Material World
Volition and Wisdom
Implications
II. God as a Final Cause
Maimonidean Sources
Faith and Heresy
CHAPTER THREE. THE INTELLECT
Al-Kind? and al-F?r?b?
Isaac Israeli and Shem Tov Falaquera
Hayyim Israeli and Shem Tov ibn Mayor
CHAPTER FOUR. MIRACLES
Stages
First steps: The debate up to the twelfth century
Ibn Ezra and Maimonides: ambiguity
The power of clarity: Gersonides and his influence
Consequences of Ambiguity: (1) Interpretations of the Guide of the Perplexed
Consequences of Ambiguity: (2) Polemics over the Guide of the Perplexed
Natural Interpretation: Ibn Ezra?s Allusions
Partial miracle, double and triple: The non-radical positions
Conclusion
CHAPTER FIVE. POLEMICS

I. Science
The Value of Science
The Debate over the Implications of Science
Conclusion
II. Providence
Two Thirteenth-Century Interpretations of the Maimonidean Notion of 
Providence
The Traditionalist Interpretation
Defence of Maimonides’ Theory of Providence
Conclusion
CHAPTER SIX. ESOTERICISM
I. Introduction
Types of contradiction
Motives
Judaism vs. other religions
II. Judah Halevi
Intention and action
Refutation of the Philosopher and the Philosophers
Attributes and Creation
Conclusion
III. Gersonides
The Sages of the Torah versus the philosopher
Avicenna and Averroes
Equivalence (1): Contra ?absolute homonymy?
Equivalence (2): Active cause
Maimonides? view as a didactic tool
Providence and knowledge: Book Four
Knowledge and ontology: Book Five
Multiplicity in divine knowledge: The argument with Averroes
Conclusion
CHAPTER SEVEN. CIRCLES
Spanish vs. Proven?al Culture
What is a ?Circle??
Rashba?s Philosophically Inclined Disciples in the 14th Century
The Circle of Commentators on Kuzari at the Beginning of the 15th Century
A 14th-Century, Radically Inclined Neoplatonist Circle
Conclusion
EPILOGUE. IS IT POSSIBLE TO WRITE A HISTORY OF JEWISH THOUGHT?
Criteria
The status of reason
Opposite symmetries
Prospective audiences
Developments
Philosophical Circles
Toward open writing
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Philosophy, Jewish.
Philosophy, Medieval.

 

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