论迈蒙尼德在《迷途指津》中对寓意释经法的理性化应用

中世纪的犹太教面临着来自希腊的以亚里斯多德主义为代表的理性主义哲学的挑战。迈蒙尼德选择以融合的策略来面对这一挑战,试图调和宗教和哲学二者之间的关系。在《迷途指津》第一篇的前70章中,迈蒙尼德利用传统的寓意释经法,通过讨论《托拉》中在传统意义上暗示着上帝有形体和上帝多样性的词句,从理性主义的角度对其进行比喻性解释,以期达到以宗教传统融合哲学、以理性主义哲学证明犹太教合法性的目的。

On Maimonides' Allegorical Interpretation of Torah in the Guide of the Perplexed

Committed to the historical challenge of Aristotelianism philosophy from Greece via the Islamic philosophy to Judaism in the Middle Ages,Maimonides chose the strategy of integrating the religious tradition and the philosophy of rationalism.In doing so,he first dealt with the problem of the language of religion.He devoted most chapters of the First Part of his masterpiece The Guide of the Perplexed to explaining the words and sentences in Torah and other rabbinic literatures that in a traditional sense indic...