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Josef Stern
Matter and Form of Maimonides’ "Guide" [EPUB ebook]

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Maimonides Guide of the Perplexed is generally read as an attempt either to harmonize reason and revelation or to show that they are irreconcilable. Moving beyond these familiar debates, Josef Stern argues that the perplexity addressed in this famously enigmatic work is the tension between human matter and form: the body and intellect.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 448 ● ISBN 9780674075948 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2683753 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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