عنوان

Maimonides and St. Thomas on the limits of reason /

(Number (ISBN

0791424154 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

0791424162 (pbk. : alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780791424155 (alk. paper)

(Number (ISBN

9780791424162 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Number

b510264

Title Proper

Maimonides and St. Thomas on the limits of reason /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Idit Dobbs-Weinstein.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

c1995.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

x, 278 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

SUNY series in philosophy

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p.[261]-272) and indexes.

Text of Note

1. Maimonides and Aquinas as Interpreters -- 2. The Book of Job -- 3. The Account of the Beginning or Creation -- 4. Matter, Privation, and Evil -- 5. Natural Human Perfection and Its Limits -- 6. Divine Law as a Perfection of Philosophical Ethics -- 7. Hubris, Knowledge, and Provident Participation.

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Text of Note

Through a comparative philosophical examination of the diverse aporiae constituting the question of "providence," the author seeks to determine the degree of philosophical compatibility between Maimonides and St. Thomas Aquinas, and where disagreement is evident, its origin, nature and philosophical consequences. Dobbs-Weinstein retrieves some occluded aspects of their thought that render a better understanding of each thinker and provide a richer philosophical vocabulary for discussions of the limits of "reason," the consequent inevitable limits of language and interpretation and, above all, the relation between knowing and acting. This study also shows how and why, despite the fact that they adopt some radically different ontological principles, Maimonides and Aquinas reach strikingly similar conclusions concerning the existential dimensions of human life, especially the possibilities and modes of knowledge and the actions consequent upon them.

Parallel Title

Maimonides and Saint Thomas on the limits of reason

Maimonides, Moses,1135-1204.

Thomas,1225?-1274.

Faith and reason.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Class number

Book number

Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit,1950-

Date of Transaction

20140214081252.0

Electronic name

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