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Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature de Joshua Parens

Maimonides and Spinoza: Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

Autor Joshua Parens
en Limba Engleză Hardback – aug 2012
Until the last century, it was generally agreed that Maimonides was a great defender of Judaism, and Spinoza—as an Enlightenment advocate for secularization—among its key opponents. However, a new scholarly consensus has recently emerged that the teachings of the two philosophers were in fact much closer than was previously thought. In his perceptive new book, Joshua Parens sets out to challenge the now predominant view of Maimonides as a protomodern forerunner to Spinoza—and to show that a chief reason to read Maimonides is in fact to gain distance from our progressively secularized worldview.
Turning the focus from Spinoza’s oft-analyzed Theologico-Political Treatise, this book has at its heart a nuanced analysis of his theory of human nature in the Ethics. Viewing this work in contrast to Maimonides’s Guide of the Perplexed, it makes clear that Spinoza can no longer be thought of as the founder of modern Jewish identity, nor should Maimonides be thought of as having paved the way for a modern secular worldview. Maimonides and Spinoza dramatically revises our understanding of both philosophers.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226645742
ISBN-10: 0226645746
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Seria Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith

Notă biografică

Joshua Parens is professor in and graduate director of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dallas. He is the author of An Islamic Philosophy of Virtuous Religions and coeditor of the second edition of Medieval Political Philosophy: A Sourcebook.

Cuprins

Introduction

Chapter 1. Desire (Shahwa) and Spiritedness (Ghadab) vs. Conatus
Chapter 2. Veneration vs. Equality
Chapter 3. Forms vs. Laws of Nature
Chapter 4. Freedom vs. Determinism
Chapter 5. Teleology vs. Imagined Ideal
Chapter 6. Prudence vs. Imagination

Epilogue

Appendix: Richard Kennington’s Spinoza and Esotericism in Spinoza’s Thought

Index

Recenzii

“Joshua Parens’s illuminating study of Maimonides and Spinoza highlights the significant philosophical differences between the two thinkers through a distinctive focus on their conflicting views of human nature. Standing at the intersection between two fundamental problems—the relation between philosophy and religion, on the one hand; ancients and moderns, on the other—this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of each.”

“A well-conceived, well-executed thinking through of a tangled controversy over how to understand the relationship between two formidable and influential figures in the history of philosophy. Joshua Parens is thoroughly convincing in his assertion that the current scholarly tendency to assimilate Maimonides to Spinoza is superficially attractive but fundamentally misleading.”

“Joshua Parens argues persuasively that the time has come to expose Spinoza’s teaching and to engage in a more frank reckoning between the ancients and the moderns. Maimonides and Spinoza reflects the highest level of scholarship and will likely challenge scholars of both liberal Judaism and Jewish studies—the former for revealing Spinoza’s debt to Machiavelli and the latter for undermining hasty and ill-founded generalizations about philosophy and revelation.”

"The names Maimonides and Spinoza conjure up all sorts of images befitting their stature as world class philosophers. Maimonides is considered by most as the defender of Judaism while Spinoza was looked upon as one of its opponents. For the average nonspecialist, the arguments over whether Maimonides or Spinoza was the first modern philosopher or premodern philosopher or if Spinoza was still a medievalist may not be exciting, but among philosophers it is quite significant. . . . Parens focuses on Spinoza’s Ethics. By studying his theory of human nature and contrasting it to Maimonides’ Guide, he demonstrates that neither Spinoza nor Maimonides should be considered a premodern or modern. This study enhances our understanding of both philosophers and challenges the way of thinking about them that has been accepted for the past century."