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Josef Stern

Josef Stern is the William H. Colvin Professor of Philosophy at The University of Chicago, and the author, most recently, of The Matter and Form of Maimonides’ Guide (Harvard University Press).

Winter 2015

Thoroughly Modern Maimonides?: A Response

By: Josef Stern

Kaplan writes that “one key statement . . . I would have liked to see Stern contend” with is “‘For only truth pleases God and only falsehood angers Him,’ [Guide 2:47] which implies that only truth, not the search for truth, is of value.”