Kenneth Seeskin

Maimonides on the Origin of the World

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Looks closely at the debates surrounding Maimonides' discussion of creation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 523g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845533
• ISBN-10: 052184553X
• Artikelnr.: 22758546

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. God and the problem of origin
2. Creation in the Timaeus
3. Aristotle and the arguments for eternity
4. Plotinus and the metaphysical causation
5. Particularity
6. Nature, miracles and the end of the world
7. Aftermath and conclusion.