Publisher's Synopsis
"Maimonides' Latin translation of Moreh Nevukhim | Guide for the Perplexed, was the most influential Jewish work in the last millennia (Di Segni, 2019; Rubio, 2006; Wohlman, 1988, 1995; Kohler, 2017). It marked the beginning of scholasticism, a daughter of Judaism raised by Jewish thinkers, according to historian Heinrich Graetz (History of the Jews, L. 6 Ch. 12). Printed by Gutenberg's first mechanical press, its influence in the West went as far as the Fifth Lateran Council (1512 - 1517) "where scholars were encouraged to remove the difficulties which seemed to divide the whole of theology and philosophy (Leibniz, Théodicée, 11)." For centuries, the Guide revolutionized the curriculum of school instruction by reintegrating in the sphere of faith the natural laws of thought (the fourth of which became Leibniz' Principle of sufficient reason). This is the complete collection of notes that expound the ideas of the Guide, featuring all th
