Maimonides' Political Thought
Subtitle: Studies in Ethics, Law, and the Human Ideal (S U N Y Series in Jewish Philosophy)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: June 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780791441893
Subjects: Jewish studies; Politics - Current Events; Philosophy Of Judaism; Medieval Philosophy; Religion; Politics / Current Events; Political science; Philosophy; Political; Philosophy, Jewish; History & Theory - General; Judaism - General; 1135-1204; Maimonides, Moses,; Philosophy, Medieval
Description: This book presents a series of studies that cover a wide range of issues relating to Maimonides' political thought, including the basis for political and ethical knowledge; the notion of the "good"; imitatio Dei; apparent contradictions in his position on ethics; the conception of God that he attempts to inculcate to Jewish society at large; and his novel approach to the love and fear of God.

Taking into account his medieval Aristotelian and Jewish sources, these explorations also deal with some of the opposing considerations that Maimonides had to balance in developing and presenting his positions on such subjects as the nature of divine law, the static vs. dynamic dimensions of Mosaic law, prophetic and rabbinic authority within Judaism, the reasons for the commandments, and martyrdom.