Quest for God and the Good

Diana Lobel is associate professor of religion at Boston University and the author of Between Mysticism and Philosophy: Sufi Language of Religious Experience in Judah Halevi's Kuzari and A Sufi-Jewish Dialogue: Philosophy and Mysticism in Bahya Ibn Paquda's Duties of the Heart.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1. "God Saw That It Was Good": The Creation of the World in the Hebrew Bible 2. A Divine Craftsman Shapes All for the Good: Plato's Realm of the Forms 3. Change and the Good: Chinese Perspectives 4. The Harmony of Reason and Revelation: Augustine and Maimonides on Good and Evil 5. You Are the Absolute: Philosophies of India 6. Compassion, Wisdom, Awakening: The Way of Buddhism 7. The Good Is That to Which All Things Aim: Aristotle on God and the Good 8. The Philosopher as Teacher: Al-F?r?b? on Contemplation and Action 9. The Imitation of God: Maimonides on the Active and the Contemplative Life 10. The Dance of Human Expression: al-Ghaz?l? and Maimonides ConclusionNotes Bibliography Index

She enlists her readers in a close reading and careful analysis of enduring texts from several major religious and philosophical traditions as a way to gain and understanding of key issues in fundamental metaphysics and moral philosophy. Choice For those looking for an introduction to world philosophy, this is an excellent option...Lobel is to be thanked for providing us with a wonderful book that both instructs and inspires our own philosophical and spiritual journeys. -- Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier National Catholic Reporter Lobel's Quest for God and the Good is about the travel, not the destination; it is about raising the questions, not answering them once and for all. -- Yaniv Feller Journal of Jewish Thought