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Index
Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Translator’s Note Maimon’s Autobiography: A Guide for the Perplexed Original Editor’s Preface, by Karl Philipp Moritz Introduction Chapter 1: My Grandfather’s Household Chapter 2: Earliest Childhood Memories Chapter 3: Private Education and Independent Study Chapter 4: Jewish Schools. The Joy of Being Delivered from Them Results in a Stiff Foot Chapter 5: My Family Is Driven into Poverty, and an Old Servant’s Great Loyalty Costs Him a Christian Burial Chapter 6: New Residence, New Misery. The Talmudist Chapter 7: Happiness Turns Out to Be Short-Lived Chapter 8: The Student Knows More Than the Teacher. A Theft à la Rousseau Is Discovered. The Pious Man Wears What the Godless Man Procures Chapter 9: Love Affairs. Marriage Proposals. The Song of Solomon Can Be Used as a Matchmaking Device. Smallpox Chapter 10: People Fight over Me. I Suddenly Go from Having No Wives to Having Two. In the End, I Wind Up Being Kidnapped Chapter 11: Marrying as an Eleven Year Old Makes Me into My Wife’s Slave and Results in Beatings at the Hands of My Mother-in-Law. A Spirit of Flesh and Blood Chapter 12: Marital Secrets. Prince R., or the Things One Isn’t Allowed to Do in Poland Chapter 13: Striving for Intellectual Growth amidst the Eternal Struggle against All Kinds of Misery Chapter 14: I Study the Kabbalah, and Finally Become a Doctor Chapter 15: Brief Account of the Jewish Religion, from Its Origins to the Present Chapter 16: Jewish Piety and Exercises in Penance Chapter 17: Friendship and Rapture Chapter 18: Life as a Tutor Chapter 19: Another Secret Society and Therefore a Long Chapter Chapter 20: Continuation of the Story, as well as Some Thoughts on Religious Mysteries Chapter 21: Trips to Königsberg, Stettin, and Berlin, to Further My Understanding of Humanity Chapter 22: My Misery Reaches Its Nadir. Rescue Preface to the Second Book Introduction: Expansion of My Knowledge and Development of My Character. On Both of Which the Writings of the Famous Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon Had the Greatest Influence. Precise Account of These Writings Chapter 1: More Newochim: Its Plan, Goal, and Method. Theologica Politica Chapter 2: Continuation. Interpretation of Expressions with Multiple Meanings. Language in the Hands of Theologians, like Clay in the Hands of the Potters. Anti-Rousseauean Refutation of an Objection. Cautionary Rule for Aspiring Metaphysicians: One Must First Learn to Swim before Plunging into the Great Oceans of the World Chapter 3: Continuation. The Crow Is Robbed of the Feathers Stolen from Other Birds, or the Denial of God’s Positive Characteristics Chapter 4: Continuation. Explanation of the Manifold Names of God as Names for His Actions. Destiny of Metaphysics. It Becomes the Slave of Theology. Its Degeneration into Dialectics Chapter 5: Continuation. The Concept of Angels. Some Remain at Their Stations as Ambassadors, Others Have Been Ordered Back. Genesis and Influence of the Uniform Beings. Aristotelians’ Reasons for the Eternity of the World Chapter 6: Continuation. Counter-Reasons. A Psychological Explanation of Prophesy That Doesn’t Undermine the Dignity of Prophesy Chapter 7: Continuation. Relation of All Natural Events to God. A Very Comfortable and Pious Method. Divine Equipage, a Cosmological Idea That the Prophet Ezekiel Wouldn’t Have Dreamed of. Excellent Morals, but Not in Line with Today’s Taste. Origins of Evil. Prophesy. Final Causes Chapter 8: Continuation. Overcoming Doubts about God’s Omniscience. The Book of Job as the Vehicle for a Metaphysical Treatise on Providence Chapter 9: Mosaic Jurisprudence. The Silly Paganism of the Sabians, an Impetus to Many Otherwise Inexplicable Laws, of Which the Beard Still Remains Chapter 10: Conclusion of the More Newochim. Excellent Morals. Definition of the True Worship of God, Which Makes Priests Unnecessary Admonition Chapter 11: My Arrival in Berlin. Acquaintances. Mendelssohn. Doubting Metaphysical Systems. Teaching Locke and Adelung Chapter 12: Mendelssohn. A Chapter Dedicated to the Memory of a Great Friend Chapter 13: My Initial Aversion to Belle Lettres and My Ensuing Conversion. Departure from Berlin. A Stay in Hamburg. I Get Drunk the Way a Bad Actor Shoots Himself. A Foolish Old Woman Falls in Love with Me—and Is Rejected Chapter 14: I Return to Hamburg. A Lutheran Pastor Calls Me a Mangy Sheep and Claims That I Am Unworthy of Being Taken into the Christian Flock. I Become a Gymnasium Student and Make the Chief Rabbi as Mad as a Ram Chapter 15: Third Journey to Berlin. Failed Plan to Become a Hebrew Author. Journey to Breslau. Divorce Chapter 16: Fourth Trip to Berlin. Atrocious Conditions and Help. Study of Kant’s Writings. A Depiction of My Own Works Concluding Chapter: The Merry Masquerade Ball Afterword: Maimon’s Philosophical Itinerary, by Gideon Freudenthal Abbreviations Bibliography Index
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