THE GUIDE FOR THE PERPLEXED. Translated From The Original Arabic By M. Friedlander, Ph.D. Second Edition Revised Throughout

orange, black & gold decorative trade paperback soft cover 8vo. vg+ / near fine cond. binding square & tight. spine uncreased. covers clean. edges clean. old name erased on front flyleaf, otherwise contents free of markings. printing # not given . nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~. "This Dover edition, first published in 1956, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the second revised edition, originally published in 1904. It is an authorized edition published through special arrangement with Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd." lix+414p + list of publisher's other titles. index of quotations from scriptural passages. index of quotations from targum. index of quotations from midrashim. index of quotations from talmud. index of references to other works of maimonides. index of references to works of science and philosophy. alphabetical index. religion. philosophy. theology. medieval literature. judaism. ~ This is the full, unabridged text of one of the greatest philosophic works of all time. Written by a 12th~century thinker who was equally active as an original philosopher and as a Biblical and Talmudic scholar, it is both a classic of great historical importance and a work of living significance today. The Guide for the Perplexed was written for scholars who were bewildered by the conflict between religion and the scientific and philosophic thought of the day. It is concerned, basically, with finding a concord between the religion of the Old Testament and its commentaries, and Aristotelian philosophy. After analyzing the ideas of the Old Testament by means of "homonyms" Maimonides examines other reconciliations of religion and philosophy (the Moslerri rationalists) and then proposes his own resolution with contemporary Aristotelianism. The Guide for the Perplexed was at once recognized as a masterwork, and it strongly influenced Jewish, Christian, and Moslem thought of the Middle Ages. It is necessary reading for any full comprehension of the thought of such scholastics as Aquinas and Scotus, and indispensable for everyone interested in the Middle Ages, Judaism, medieval philosophy, or the larger problems which Maimonides discusses. Unabridged reproduction of 2nd revised edition of Friedlander's translation. introduction discusses Maimonides' life, editions, mss., translations and provides a summary of the Guide.…