• Introduction | Leibniz' Anthology of Maimonides' Guide

    Author(s):
    Walter Hilliger (see profile)
    Date:
    2023
    Item Type:
    Book section
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/j8xc-8274
    Abstract:
    Maimonides’ Latin translation of Moreh Nevukhim | Guide for the Perplexed, was the most influential Jewish work in the last millennia (Di Segni, 2019; Rubio, 2006; Wohlman, 1988, 1995; Kohler, 2017). It marked the beginning of scholasticism, a daughter of Judaism raised by Jewish thinkers, according to historian Heinrich Graetz (Geschichte der Juden, L. 6, Leipzig 1861, p. xii). Printed by Gutenberg's first mechanical press, its influence in the West went as far as the Fifth Lateran Council (1512 — 1517) "where scholars were encouraged to remove the difficulties which seemed to divide the whole of theology and philosophy (Leibniz, Théodicée, 11)." For centuries, the Guide revolutionized the curriculum of school instruction by reintegrating the natural laws of thought in the sphere of faith (the fourth of which became Leibniz’ Principle of sufficient reason). This complete collection of notes expounds the ideas of the Guide and features all the passages selected and rewritten by Leibniz. This first complete annotated bilingual translation of the original manuscripts in Latin serves as an entry point to the faith in conformity with Reason. This complete collection of notes expounds the ideas of the Guide as selected and rewritten by Leibniz, the famous mathematician inventor of computer arithmetic, considered the last universal genius.
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    Publisher:
    Shehakol | Cercle Hilliger
    Pub. Date:
    2023
    Book Title:
    Leibniz\' Anthology of Maimonides\' Guide
    Editor(s):
    R. Moses Ben Maimon, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Walter Hilliger & Lloyd Strickland
    Page Range:
    20 - 27
    ISBN:
    978-1735673783
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    Published
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    2 weeks ago
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