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THE GUIDE  

   

     An Explanatory Commentary on Each Chapter

    of Maimonides' Guide of The Perplexed

                                       By:  Scott Michael Alexander

About Maimonides

Other Essays by Scott Alexander on Themes Broadly Related to Maimonides' Philosophy

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Selective Memory: Review of Dara Horn's Novel, A Guide for the Perplexed

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Review of Maimonides–Between Philosophy and Halakhah : Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s Lectures on The Guide of the Perplexed, Published October 27, 2021 by Academia Letters

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Modernizing Maimonides (Notes about Joel Kraemer's Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds)

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Second and Third Thoughts on Cato

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Is the Universe One or Many? (with a brief critique of Crescas' Critique of Aristotle, by Harry A Wolfson)

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Philosophy and Ocean Voyages

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Moby Dick in Performance and Guide 1:76

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Mulla Sadra and the Later Development of Kalām

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Heidegger, the Jews, and Religion: Thoughts on Martin Heidegger, Between Good and Evil, by Rüdiger Safranski, Translated by Ewald Osers (1989) New!

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Changes in Time vs. Timeless Change: The Unchanging and Its Emanations:

The Difference Between the Concept of Change in Proposition VII in the Introduction to Book II of The Guide of the Perplexed, and the Concept of Change in Guide 2:12 

New! 8/2019

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Brief Review of an Article on Karaism and Maimonides    New! 10/2020

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❧ Translations and Essays about Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Even-Shmuel (Kaufman) New!

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Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Even-Shmuel (Kaufman) in Memoriam: a translation of a memorial article by Yitzhak Rafael for Mossad Ha-Rav Kook   New!

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Maimonides Scholar Yehuda Even-Shmuel (Kaufman) On The Sophists–An Appreciation And Brief Translation   New!
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Translation of an Even-Shmuel Footnote on the History of Proofs of God’s Existence (Note 284 on page 108 of his Introduction to his Hebrew commentary on Vol. II of the Guide.) New!
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Translation of an Even-Shmuel Footnote on Contemporary Criticism of Maimonides’ Philosophy (Note 285 on page 111 of his Introduction to his Hebrew commentary on Vol. II of the Guide.) New!
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Photo Credits:  Maimonides Statue: Statue of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon (Maimonides) by the sculptor Amadeo Ruiz Olmos (1964). Plaza de Tiberiades, Cordoba, Spain. Photo By Yair Haklai (Own work)

[CC BY-SA 3.0  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons 

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Background photo: The Met Shows Off Medieval Hebrew Bibles – Tablet Magazine micro-calligraphy, TabletMag.com

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