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Maimonides on the Origin of the World - Softcover

Seeskin, Kenneth

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9780521697521: Maimonides on the Origin of the World
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ISBN 10: 0521697522 ISBN 13: 9780521697521
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Although Maimonides' discussion of creation is one of his greatest contributions - he himself claims that belief in creation is second in importance only to belief in God - there is still considerable debate on what that contribution was. Kenneth Seeskin takes a close look at the problems Maimonides faced and the sources from which he drew. He argues that Maimonides meant exactly what he said: the world was created by a free act of God so that the existence of everything other than God is contingent. In religious terms, existence is a gift. In order to reach this conclusion, Seeskin examines Maimonides' view of God, miracles, the limits of human knowledge, and the claims of astronomy to be a science. Clearly written and closely argued, Maimonides on the Origin of the World takes up questions of perennial interest.

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About the Author

Kenneth Seeskin, a Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University and winner of a Koret Jewish Book Award (2001), is the author of Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age, Maimonides: a Guide for Today's Perplexed, No Other Gods: the Modern Struggle Against Idolatry, Searching for a Distant God: The Legacy of Maimonides and Autonomy in Jewish Philosophy. He is also the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521697522
ISBN 13 
9780521697521
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
224
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