The Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics - Shemonah Perakim: A Psychological And Ethical Treatise

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Mi = Mishnah text with Commentary of Maimonides, Naples, 1492; printed by Joshua Soncino. [78] This is the first edition of the Mishnah. The copy used by the editor is found in the library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. It has marginal notes offering corrections, as well as some interlinear insertions. It agrees substantially with So, its source evidently being the same, both being Soncino editions. Variants from it are recorded in the notes only when differing from those of So. Cod. 46. 3°. R. Mosis M. Scemone Perakim, seu octo Capita de animae facultatibus a R. S. Tibbonide hebraice versa. Sec. XV. The virtue which I. T. explains here, owing to the inadequacy of the Hebrew terms, is the one which Aristotle calls magnificence (I. T.'s טוב לב‎). The excess is want of taste or vulgar profusion ( יתרון טוב הלבב‎), and the defect paltriness ( הגבלה‎). See Eth. Nic., loc. cit. According to Aristotle, magnificence is a higher kind of liberality ( גדיבות‎), and consists of the spending of money on a grand scale, with taste and propriety. It is prompted by a desire for what is noble, concerning itself with the services of religion, public works, and so forth. The vulgar man, whose object is ostentation, offends with excessive splendor, while the mean man, on the other hand, through timidity and constant fear of expense, even though he does expend large amounts, mars the whole effect by some petty characteristic of meanness ( ibid., IV, 2). I. T. has, accordingly, incorrectly explained the terms גבלה ,לב מוב‎, and יתרון טוב הלבב‎. Beer, Michal. שמונה פרקים לרמב״ם‎. Le huit Chapitres de Maïmonide, etc., trad. en franc. 8°. Paris, 1811. This book was fantastic! I really enjoy fantasy stories… greek mythology, Billionaire, Romance vampires, I love it all… and this book had it all and then some. Anything fantasy or mythological, was in this book. I really enjoyed how Cornell was able to bring them all together in a way that was seamless and natural (or at least as natural as made-up things can be). What I mean is that when I learned these mythological characters were all in it I thought it was a recipe for disaster, but actually it works brilliantly.

Jaraczewski ( ZPhKr, XL VI, p. 23) refers to a Latin translation which appeared in Bologna in 1520.

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Note. — Maimonides com. in P. A. qui est consueta Sam. Tibbonidis versione praemittur interpretis et auctoris altera fusior de animae facultatibus quam scemone perachim seu octo capitula inscripsit.

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