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Index Abba Sha’ul, 73 Abraham, xxxvi, 158–59 Abraham ben David of Posquières, 84, 161 Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon, 83 Abraham ibn Daud. See ibn Daud, Abraham Abraham ibn Ezra, xxxiii, 108 absence. See negation the Absolute, 10–12, 14; absence of, 66–67; cognitive truth as, 62; limits and, 20; Unconditioned Absolute, 87 absolute knowledge, 89 absolute spirit, 94 absolute zero, 91–92 Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi, 183–86 accountability, 141, 166; cognition and, 8; the Good as idea vs. concept , 9; individual responsibility and, 146; of the multitude, 188–89; Plato and accountability for concepts, 5 actional attributes, 98–100, 104, 149–52; Divine Will and, 31–32; Knowing God and, 65, 69, 70–72; moral behavior and, 72; origin and, 93–94; Soloveitchik on, 149–52 actuality, 97–98 actualization, 115, 192; of the Good and ethical will, 96; goodness and, 52–53 Adelmann, Dieter, 79 aesthesis, 112 affect, doctrine of, 65 Agnus Dei, 143–44 Al-Charizi (Rabbi Yahuda AlCharizi ), 91–92 Alexander of Aphrodisia, 93–94 al-Razi (Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi), 183–86 alterity, 85, 86–87 anger, 140–41 anthropomorphism, 18, 77–78, 105, 169, 185, 188 anticipation, 173, 175, 181; immanence and, 97–98; logic of, 12–13; repentance (teshuvah) and, 167. See also futurity apocalypticism, 165, 167 Aristotle and Aristotelian tradition: the Absolute, 14; Aristotelian terminology , used by Maimonides, 55, 61–62, 191; cause, form, and end, 95; consensus gentium and endoxa, 45; criticism of, 125; divergence from, 191; episteme and phronesis, 51; eudaemonia and, 124; First Cause, 70–71; “fourth wisdom,” 56; the Good and, 9, ethics of maimonides 246 14–16, 128–29; goodness defined in terms of concrete actualization , 52–53; humility and, 140; infinite judgment, 12; Maimonides and, xxvii, 24, 25, 61–62, 74–75, 124–25, 130, 132, 134, 149, 158; Maimonides on, 49–50, 53; Plato and, xxiv, 8, 25; Platonic idea and, 14–16; theory and praxis, 14–16; theory of God, 62–65, 70–71, 94–95. See also eudaemonia asceticism, 119, 120–21, 138 Ästhetik des reinen Gefühls (Aesthetics of pure feeling), 112 astronomy, 7–8 atid lavo, 170–71, 172–74 atonement, 70, 78, 167; institutionalized salvation, 144; Jesus and vicarious atonement, 143–44; Law of Repentance, 147; Yom Kippur, 144, 147 attributes, divine attributes: actional attributes, 31–32, 69, 70–72, 93, 98–100, 104, 149–52; cognition of divine attributes as impossible, 66–67; Divine will and, 31–32; docta ignorantia and, 98–100; doctrine of divine attributes, 68, 192; emotion and, 100–101; ethics as, 113–14; humility as, 141–43; life (existence), 66–67, 92, 94; as limits of divine substance (per Spinoza), 86; Medieval debates on, 67–68; moral behavior and actional attributes, 72; negation of, 68–70; negative attributes , 77–78, 88–91, 100–101, 103; omnipotence, 66–67, 78, 103, 107–8; omniscience, 66–67, 78, 107; revelation and, 68–70; Thirteen attributes (middoth), 70–73, 99–100, 114 automaton, universe as, 42–43 autonomy: free will and, 31–32; of human reason, 30; human reasoning and oral tradition as autonomous , xxxiii; hypothesis and, 6; Moses’s sovereignty, 34; prophetic knowledge vs. autonomous knowledge, 74–75 Avencebrol (Shlomo ibn Gabirol), 21–22 awe, 117 axioms and, 7–9 Bacher, Wilhelm, xxvi Bahya ibn Pakuda, 78, 121; unity of the heart, 109–10 Baneth, Eduard, xxvi Being (essence) vs. being (existence), 89–90 Ben Azzai, 63 berith, 39 Berman, Lawrence V., 24 betselem Elohim, 62–65 bliss (shekhinah), 176–77 Blumenberg, Hans, 17–18 Book of Commandments (Sefer haMitzvot ), 36 Boyarin, Daniel, 27 Brann, Markus, xxvi Buber, Martin, 152–53, 154 Buber, Salomon, xxvi canonization of Scripture, 37 Cantor, Georg, 8 Cassierer, Ernst, xxii, 85 casuistic legal systems, 80–81 cause, form, and end, 95 ceremonial law, 118 chakham, 134–36 Charakteristik der Ethik Maimunis, xxiii–xxiv, xxxv; as Urtext, 24 chassid, 134–35, 137–38 chavruta, as model for format of book, xxi, xlii chokhmah (ultimate wisdom), 81; vs. Torah, 66; world-to-come and original light of creation, 175 Christianity and Christian theology, 39; Agnus Dei, 143–44; applicability of the Law, 27–29; the Decalogue, 38–39; deification and, 119; dis- [3.239.214.173] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 09:42 GMT) index 247 tinguished from Judaism, 28; Eucharist, 26, 27–29, 39–41; forgiveness , 148; humility divine and salvation, 142; ibn Gabriol and, 21–22; Jesus and prophetic task, 183...