Maimonides and Spinoza
Subtitle: their conflicting views of human nature
By: Joshua Parens
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780226645742
Subjects: Judaism; Theological anthropology; Philosophical anthropology; Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Desire (shahwa) and spiritedness (ghaḍab) vs. conatus; title: Veneration vs. equality; title: Forms vs. laws of nature; title: Freedom vs. determinism; title: Teleology vs. imagined ideal; title: Prudence vs. imagination; title: Epilogue; title: Appendix: Richard Kennington's Spinoza and esotericism in Spinoza's thought.