Synopses & Reviews
A study of the problems Maimonides faced and his contribution to philosophy.
Review
"This is an excellent piece of work, easily up to the usual high standard of the author's output. The topic is a very controversial one in Jewish philosophy...so it is a major point of interest in the area. What Seeskin does well is run through the whole philosophical background to the issue in Maimonides, in so far as it it impinged on him, and this is very useful. The discussion of the whole context within which Maimonides produced his views is uniformly rigorous, balanced, and enlightening." --Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky"...a brilliant book." Choice"Seeskin's book is a solid contribution to the growing literature on the greatest of the medieval Jewish thinkers . . . " --Daniel H. Frank, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Synopsis
Looks closely at the debates surrounding Maimonides' discussion of creation.
Table of Contents
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.