Tag: Perplexed

Free Download A Guide to The Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader’s Companion to Maimonides’ Masterwork by Lenn E. Goodman
English | May 28, 2024 | ISBN: 1503629538, 1503637476 | True EPUB | 270 pages | 1.7 MB
In this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides’ celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late twelfth century, Maimonides’ Guide aims to help religiously committed readers who are alive to the challenges posed by reason and the natural sciences to biblical and rabbinic tradition.

Free Download Robert Skidelsky, "What’s Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed"
English | ISBN: 030024987X | 2020 | 248 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
A passionate and informed critique of mainstream economics from one of the leading economic thinkers of our time

Free Download Moses Maimonides, "The Guide of the Perplexed, Vol. 2"
English | ISBN: 0226502317 | | 384 pages | AZW3 | 905 KB
This monument of rabbinical exegesis written at the end of the twelfth century has exerted an immense and continuing influence upon Jewish thought. Its aim is to liberate people from the tormenting perplexities arising from their understanding of the Bible according only to its literal meaning. This edition contains extensive introductions by Shlomo Pines and Leo Strauss, a leading authority on Maimonides.

Free Download Steve Ellis, "T. S. Eliot: A Guide for the Perplexed"
English | 2009 | pages: 180 | ISBN: 1847060161 | PDF | 0,6 mb
T. S. Eliot is one of the most celebrated twentieth-century poets and one whose work is practically synonymous with perplexity. Eliot is perceived as extremely challenging due to the multi-lingual references and fragmentation we find in his poetry and his recurring literary allusions to writers including Dante, Shakespeare, Marvell, Baudelaire, and Conrad.

Free Download Cornelis de Waal, "Peirce: A Guide for the Perplexed"
English | 2013 | pages: 200 | ISBN: 1847065163, 1847065155 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Charles Sanders Peirce, the founder of pragmatism, is a hugely important and influential thinker in the history of American philosophy. His philosophical interests were broad and he made significant contributions in several different areas of thought. Moreover, his contributions are intimately connected and his philosophy designed to form a coherent and systematic whole.