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The Guide of the Perplexed

دلالة الحائرين (Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn) / מורה נבוכים

Retrato imaginario de Maimónides (Ugolini, 1744)
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His philosophical work, written in Arabic in Hebrew letters around 1185–1190 for his disciple Joseph ben Judah. In three parts: the first explains biblical terms that seem to attribute to God a body, place or passions, and develops negative theology; the second discusses the proofs of God's existence, creation versus Aristotle's eternity of the world and the nature of prophecy; the third treats Ezekiel's divine chariot, evil, providence, the reasons for the commandments and human perfection, and concludes with the imitation of God's ways. Maimonides warns that he writes with deliberate contradictions to guide only those who are prepared, which has given rise to widely divergent readings. Translated into Hebrew by Samuel ibn Tibbon (1204) and Judah al-Harizi, and into Latin as *Dux neutrorum*, it influenced Christian scholasticism and Spinoza.

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Editions and translations

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English

  • The Guide of the Perplexed, vol. 2 — Maimonides

    The Guide of the Perplexed, vol. 2

    University of Chicago Press, 1963

    Translation: Shlomo Pines

    ISBN 9780226502311

  • The Guide of the Perplexed, vol. 1 — Maimonides

    The Guide of the Perplexed, vol. 1

    University of Chicago Press, 1963

    Translation: Shlomo Pines

    ISBN 9780226502304

    Con ensayo introductorio de Leo Strauss.

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  • The Guide for the Perplexed — Maimonides

    The Guide for the Perplexed

    Dover Publications, 1956

    Translation: M. Friedländer

    ISBN 9780486203515

    Reimpresión de la traducción de 1904 (dominio público).

العربية

  • Dalālat al-ḥā'irīn (texto árabe con trad. francesa)

    A. Franck, París, 1856

    Translation: Salomon Munk

    Edición de Munk, 3 vols. (1856–1866).

Deutsch

Français

Español

  • Guía de perplejos — Maimonides

    Guía de perplejos

    Editora Nacional, 1983

    Translation: David Gonzalo Maeso

    ISBN 9788427606586

  • Guía de perplejos

    Trotta, 1994

    Translation: David Gonzalo Maeso

    ISBN 9788481640021

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  • Guía de los perplejos

    CONACULTA, 2001

    Translation: León Dujovne

    ISBN-10 9682940419.

  • Guía de perplejos (reedición) — Maimonides

    Guía de perplejos (reedición)

    Trotta, 2015

    Translation: David Gonzalo Maeso

    ISBN 9788498795936

Hebreo

  • Moreh nevukhim (trad. Michael Schwarz)

    Universidad de Tel Aviv, 2002

    Translation: Michael Schwarz

    ISBN-10 9657241014.

Italiano

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Sources

  • Maimonides, Moses. The Guide for the Perplexed. Trad. del árabe por M. Friedländer. 2.ª ed. revisada en un volumen. Londres: George Routledge & Sons, 1904 (Project Gutenberg n.º 73584).

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