Maimonides
The former seeks answers; the latter seeks the questions that can help situate human beings existentially and rationally within the universe.
As the latest attempt to draw universal ethical principles from the Bible shows, philosophical investigation of its text offers the prospect of great rewards—and grave dangers.
Via Wittgenstein.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s answer.
An alternative to rationalism.
Featuring Maimonides and Don DeLillo.
For this 14th-century rabbi, the Torah’s laws were only quasi-divine.
The legacy of a 10th-century sage.
Philosophy and mysticism may be closer than they appear.
In memory of a great Jewish thinker.
Neither was a cynical atheist.
A new book takes on the philosopher’s influence.
Would a patient by another name really be as sick?