The Guide for the Perplexed (Library of Essential Reading Series) FROM THE PUBLISHER
About the Author:
Maimonides lived an eventful life in a time of widespread upheaval. Born Moses ben Maimon in Cordova, Spain, in AD 1135 to a distinguished local rabbi and his scandalously lower-class wife, he ultimately left his homeland, due to oppression, and began a journey, punctuated by temporary residencies in Morocco, Palestine, and Alexandria, that would end in Egypt. Maimonides became widely regarded as a legendary figure during his lifetime.
SYNOPSIS
"ﾽman's love of God is identical with his knowledge of Him." - The Guide for the Perplexed, Chapter 51.
The Guide for the Perplexed is the literary masterpiece of Moses Maimonides, perhaps the greatest Jewish thinker of the middle ages if not of all time. Historically crucial, it sowed the first seeds of Renaissance humanism and early modern scientific optimism by transmitting the rationalism of Aristotle's philosophy from medieval Arabic high culture to Christian theologians such as Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas
This work is one of the rare jewels of world spiritual literature, a profound and timeless statement of man's relation to himself, to God, and to society. It offers modern readers, like their medieval predecessors, a stiff challenge: do you have the tenacity to penetrate the interrelated paradoxes of The Guide for the Perplexed, the mind, and the universe in order to join the fortunate few who have glimpsed the ultimate truths of existence?
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