Polemics on Perfection: Maimonides’ Last Law on Slaves Resolves the Debate

“What is the summum bonum?” This question is, without exaggeration, the ultimate existential question. Of no less import is its corollary: how is one to achieve this summum bonum? Maimonides’ Guide for the Perplexed endeavors to provide the answers. That said, the precise intent of Maimonides answer...

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Main Author: Navon, Mois (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: The review of rabbinic Judaism
Year: 2024, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 132-154
Further subjects:B Maimonides
B Ethics
B summum bonum
B Halakhah
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