Moses Maimonides. Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed.”] With commentaries by Moses of Narbonne, Givath Hamoreh by Salomon Maimon and Isaac Satanow. Edited by Isaac Euchel.
AUCTION 69 |
Thursday, June 23rd,
2016 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Holy Land Maps and Ceremonial Objects
Lot 151
(MAIMON, SALOMON).
Moses Maimonides. Moreh Nevuchim [“Guide to the Perplexed.”] With commentaries by Moses of Narbonne, Givath Hamoreh by Salomon Maimon and Isaac Satanow. Edited by Isaac Euchel.
Berlin: Chinuch Ne’arim 1791-95
Est: $800 - $1,000
Salomon Maimon’s only published Hebrew work. Includes an 11-page introduction to the history of philosophy from Aristotle until Kant - the first time such a history appeared in Hebrew.
Salomon Maimon (1753–1800), the man who Immanuel Kant considered one of his most astute critics, was born into an Orthodox traditional life which he abandoned as a young man in order to pursue his search for philosophical truth. In Berlin he became a member of Moses Mendelssohn’s circle and collaborated with the members of the Jewish Enlightenment in preparing this Hebrew commentary to Maimonides’s Guide for the Perplexed.
See G. Freudenthal, Salomon Maimon: Rational Dogmatist, Empirical Sceptic (2003).