Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest
In this original study, noted scholar and theologian David Hartman discusses the relation between Maimonides' halakhic writings and The Guide of the Perplexed -- the connection is much closer than is generally supposed. Maimonides: Torah and Philosophic Quest demonstrates that Maimonides' total phiosophic endeavor was an attempt to show how the free search for truth, established through the study of logic, physics, and metaphysics, can live harmoniously with a way of life defined by the...
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Maimonides's total philosophy shows how the search for truth, based onlogic, physics, and metaphysics, is compatible with Judaism.
AcknowledgmentsviiForewordxiIntroduction: Multiple Responses to the Conflict of Philosophy and Halakhah31Philosophy in Maimonides' Legal Works282Halakhic and Aggadic Categories and Their Relationship to Philosophic Spirituality663Reason and Traditional Authority within Halakhah and Philosophy1024The Philosophic Religious Sensibility1395Morality and the Passionate Love for God187Notes215Selected Bibliography269Index289
