An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza Prophec
This book presents an alternative reading of the respective works of Moses Maimonides and Baruch Spinoza. It argues that both thinkers are primarily concerned with the singular perfection of the complete human being rather than with attaining only rationa
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An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza
Norman L. Whitman
An Examination of the Singular in Maimonides and Spinoza Prophecy, Intellect, and Politics
Norman L. Whitman Department of History, Humanities, and Languages University of Houston - Downtown Houston, TX, USA
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For Lindsey
Acknowledgments
My best friend, greatest love, and confidante, Lindsey Reymore, enriches my life in so many ways, including this work. Her beautiful and critical mind invigorates my passion for inquiry and is a resource from which to develop myself. I rely on her so much, and I am grateful for her review of this work. Of course, I must also thank my teacher and friend, Idit Dobbs- Weinstein, for her instruction and care; she is in many ways the source of this project. Most of all, I thank her for instilling in me the awareness that philosophy is a difficult practice of striving to manage one’s living and thinking so that one does not succumb to pleasing prejudice and dogma. Essential to this way of philosophizing is a critical engagement with ethical-political inheritances so as to have some self-awareness and equity. As she has often noted, pace Walter Benjamin, to think and live philosophically, we must read history against the grain. With friends like Michael Brodrick, one can achieve so
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