Major Works
Guide of the Perplexed
- Recommended translation: The Guide of the Perplexed. Translated with an introduction and notes by Shlomo Pines.With an introductory essay by Leo Strauss. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963. Originally composed in Arabic, in 1190.The Guide presents the Law and philosophy as espousing two different, even contradictory views of the world. The perplexity induced by these two different worldviews is Maimonides’ main subject in the Guide.
Commentary
Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter
-Maimonides and Philosophy: Papers Presented at the Sixth Jerusalem Philosophical Encounter. May, 1985. (Dordrecht, 1986) edited by Shlomo Pines and Yirmiyahu Yovel
Studies in Maimonides
- Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge Mass., 1990.Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2
-Pines, Shlomo. “Truth and Falsehood Versus Good and Evil: a Study in Jewish and General Philosophy in Connection with Guide of the Perplexed I,2.” Studies in Maimonides. ed. Isadore Twersky. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991. 95-157.
On The Guide of the PerplexedInterpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy
-Fox, Marvin . Interpreting Maimonides: Studies in Methodology, Metaphysics, and Moral Philosophy. Chicago, 1994.
on The Guide of the PerplexedThe Garden of Eden: Spinoza’s Maimonidean Account of the Geneology of Morals and the Origin of Society
-Ravven, Heidi M. “The Garden of Eden: Spinoza’s Maimonidean Account of the Geneology of Morals and the Origin of Society.” Philosophy and Theology 13 (2001): 3-51.
On The Guide of the PerplexedThe Cambridge Companion to Maimonides
-The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides. Ed. Kenneth Seeskin. Cambridge University Press, Illinois, 2005
Maimonides and Spinoza on Good and Evil
- Motzkin, Aryeh Leo. “Maimonides and Spinoza on Good and Evil.” In Aryeh Leo Motzkin, Philosophy and the Jewish Tradition, ed. Yehuda Halper. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011: 83-104.On The Guide of the PerplexedMaimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed 1 2
- Burger, Ronna. "Maimonides on Knowledge of Good and Evil: The Guide of the Perplexed 1 2", ed. Pangle, Thomas and Lomax, Harvey in Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic Life (Recovering Political Philosophy), Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2013.on The Guide of the PerplexedMatter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide
- Stern, Josef. The Matter and Form of Maimonides' Guide. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013.