Maimonides for Moderns

Ira Bedzow is the director of the Biomedical Ethics and Humanities Program at New York Medical College, USA, and the Senior Scholar of the Aspen Center for Social Values.  Bedzow received his PhD from Emory University, USA. He is also an Orthodox rabbi (yoreh yoreh and yadin yadin).

• Introduction.- 1. Teleology – One of Aspiration and not Actualization.- 2. Telos – To Be a Servant of God.- 3. Entelechy – Shlemut.- 4. The Law.- 5. A Contemporary Explanation of the Law’s Construction of Reality.- 6. Practical Reason.- 7. The Virtues.- 8. Moral Motivation & Shlemut.- Appendix I: Lifnim Mishurat Hadin.- Appendix II: A Genealogy of the Expression Moshe emet v’Torato emet.