The conflicting ideals of virtue and law.

A question of influence or of a common culture?

A philosopher’s approach.

Moving beyond the abortion debate.

The legacy of a 10th-century sage.

Philosophy and mysticism may be closer than they appear.

In a religion that eschews doctrine.

Neither was a cynical atheist.

A new book takes on the philosopher’s influence.

The British-Jewish philosopher Isaiah Berlin made it his life’s work to understand and write about the European critics of the 18th-century Enlightenment—not because he, too,. . .

One of the great debates about Moses Maimonides’ philosophical magnum opus, the Guide of the Perplexed, concerns the degree to which it should be taken. . .

In a recent book, James A. Diamond explores how the philosophical ideas of Moses Maimonides were received by medieval and modern Jewish thinkers. Diamond, in. . .

With an intellectual boldness unmatched in Jewish philosophy before or since, Moses Maimonides showed that ritual observance opens the way to knowledge of reality.