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Maimonides for Moderns

A Statement of Contemporary Jewish Philosophy

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Authors:
  1. Ira Bedzow

    1. New York Medical College, White Plains, USA

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  • Examines and finds meaning in various Maimonidean religious concepts

  • Describes normative principles of the Jewish tradition in a contemporary language

  • Engages with ancient and medieval sources as well as recent scholarship

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 1-12

  3. Teleology: One of Aspiration and Not Actualization

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 13-45

  4. Telos: To Be a Servant of God

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 47-87

  5. Entelechy: Shlemut

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 89-102

  6. The Law

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 103-118

  7. A Contemporary Explanation of the Law’s Construction of Reality

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 119-147

  8. Practical Reason

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 149-208

  9. The Virtues

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 209-259

  10. Moral Motivation and Shlemut

    • Ira Bedzow
    Pages 261-292

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 293-350
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About this book

This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical explanation of Jewish ethics. However, Bedzow moves away from various aspects of Maimonides’s Aristotelian biology, physics, metaphysics, and psychology. The objective of the volume is to integrate the normative principles of the Jewish tradition into everyday life. While the book translates Jewish ethics from a medieval, Aristotelian framework into a contemporary one, it also serves as a means for Judaism to continue as a living tradition.  

Authors and Affiliations

  • New York Medical College, White Plains, USA

    Ira Bedzow

About the author

Ira Bedzow is the director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College, USA, and the Senior Scholar of the Aspen Center for Social Values.  Bedzow received his PhD from Emory University, USA. He is also an Orthodox rabbi (yoreh yoreh and yadin yadin).  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Maimonides for Moderns

  • Book Subtitle: A Statement of Contemporary Jewish Philosophy

  • Authors: Ira Bedzow

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44573-1

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-44572-4Published: 16 December 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83083-4Published: 04 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-44573-1Published: 26 November 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 350

  • Topics: Jewish Theology, Jewish Cultural Studies, Philosophy of Religion

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