Written work
Eight Chapters
שמונה פרקים (Shemonah Perakim)
Ethical introduction to tractate *Avot*, inspired by Aristotle and al-Farabi, which Maimonides presents as medicine for the soul. It describes the faculties of the soul, the virtues as habits of the mean and the vices as extremes, the cure of vices by the opposite excess, human freedom against astrology and divine foreknowledge, and prophecy as the fruit of moral and intellectual perfection. In the introduction he declares that he gathered his ideas from the sages and the philosophers, for one must hear the truth from whoever speaks it.
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English
Maimonides
The Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics (Shemonah Perakim)
The Conscious LibraryThe Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics (Shemonah Perakim)
Columbia University Press, 1912
Translation: Joseph I. Gorfinkle
Texto hebreo de Ibn Tibbon con traducción inglesa; en Internet Archive.
Français
Le traité des huit chapitres (en Le guide des égarés)
Verdier, 1979
Translation: Jules Wolf
ISBN 9782864320043
Deutsch
Acht Kapitel: eine Abhandlung zur jüdischen Ethik und Gotteserkenntnis
Felix Meiner, 1981
Translation: Maurice Wolff
ISBN 9783787305391
Edición bilingüe árabe-alemana.
Other works by Maimonides
- Commentary on the Mishnah (Kitāb al-Sirāj) · 1168
- Introduction to the Mishnah · 1168
- Introduction to Perek Helek: the Thirteen Principles of Faith · 1168
- Book of the Commandments (Sefer ha-Mitzvot) · 1170
- Mishneh Torah (The Strong Hand) · 1178
- The Guide of the Perplexed · 1190
- Epistle to Yemen · 1172
- Epistle on Martyrdom (Iggeret ha-Shemad) · 1165
- Treatise on Resurrection · 1191
- Letter on Astrology (to the Sages of Montpellier) · 1195
- Letter to Obadiah the Proselyte · 1180
- Letter to Samuel ibn Tibbon · 1199
- Responsa (Teshuvot) · 1204
- Letters (Iggerot) · 1204
- Laws of the Jerusalem Talmud (fragment) · 1170
- Commentaries on the Babylonian Talmud (lost) · 1160
- Treatise on the Art of Logic · 1160
- Treatise on the Calendar · 1158
- Extracts from Galen (The Art of Cure) · 1190
- Commentary on Hippocrates' Aphorisms · 1195
- Medical Aphorisms (Chapters of Moses) · 1190
- Treatise on Hemorrhoids · 1190
- Treatise on Cohabitation · 1190
- Treatise on Asthma · 1190
- Treatise on Poisons and Their Antidotes · 1199
- Regimen of Health · 1198
- On the Elucidation of Some Symptoms and the Response to Them · 1200
- Glossary of Drug Names · 1200
- Chapters on Happiness (spurious)
- Treatise on Unity (doubtful)
- Oath and Prayer of the Physician (spurious) · 1793
- Ethical Will to his Son (spurious)
- Maimonides (Joel L. Kraemer) · 2008
- Maimonides: Life and Thought (Moshe Halbertal) · 2009
Sources
- Davidson, Herbert A. Moses Maimonides: The Man and His Works. Oxford/Nueva York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
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