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.

(MAIMON, SALOMON).

Chinuch Ne’arim

Berlin

1791-95

FIRST EDITION of commentaries. Three parts, divisional title-pages, additional Latin title-page.

Vinograd, Berlin 403.

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).