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" Maimonides and St. Thomas on the limits of reason / "
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein.
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BL
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688075
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b510264
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Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit,1950-
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Maimonides and St. Thomas on the limits of reason /\ Idit Dobbs-Weinstein.
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c1995.
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SUNY series in philosophy
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x, 278 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0791424154 (alk. paper)
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: 0791424162 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780791424155 (alk. paper)
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: 9780791424162 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[261]-272) and indexes.
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1. Maimonides and Aquinas as Interpreters -- 2. The Book of Job -- 3. The Account of the Beginning or Creation -- 4. Matter, Privation, and Evil -- 5. Natural Human Perfection and Its Limits -- 6. Divine Law as a Perfection of Philosophical Ethics -- 7. Hubris, Knowledge, and Provident Participation.
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Through a comparative philosophical examination of the diverse aporiae constituting the question of "providence," the author seeks to determine the degree of philosophical compatibility between Maimonides and St. Thomas Aquinas, and where disagreement is evident, its origin, nature and philosophical consequences. Dobbs-Weinstein retrieves some occluded aspects of their thought that render a better understanding of each thinker and provide a richer philosophical vocabulary for discussions of the limits of "reason," the consequent inevitable limits of language and interpretation and, above all, the relation between knowing and acting. This study also shows how and why, despite the fact that they adopt some radically different ontological principles, Maimonides and Aquinas reach strikingly similar conclusions concerning the existential dimensions of human life, especially the possibilities and modes of knowledge and the actions consequent upon them.
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Thomas,1225?-1274.
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Maimonides, Moses,1135-1204.
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Faith and reason.
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Philosophy, Medieval.
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B759.M34D62 1995
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Maimonides and Saint Thomas on the limits of reason
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