Maimonides / Scholarly Edition
The source spine in chronological order
Primary texts, original-language citations, philosophical analysis, and close reading. The order is shared with the General Public and Children's editions; the apparatus is not.
I. Early works
1 · Treatise on Logic, Ch. 10
Kinds of Predication in the Treatise on Logic
Four classes of predication, definition versus description, and the conflation that distorts.
2 · Treatise on Logic, Ch. 14
Inner and Outer Speech: The Non-Theological Foundation
The passage from thought to utterance and the limits present “in any language whatsoever.”
3 · Commentary on the Mishnah / Shemoneh Perakim
The Soul in Shemoneh Perakim
The soul, its faculties, ethical formation, prophecy, and the confusions produced by shared names.
II. Mishneh Torah — Hilkhot Yesodei HaTorah
4 · 1:1–1:4 · Approved matrix
Emet: What the Word Points To (Not “Truth”)
Seventeen chapters rooted in הוּא לְבַדּוֹ הָאֱמֶת. Chapters 1–2 are approved. Recovered Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 components remain separately preserved pending a lineage-explicit canonical assembly.
Active matrix · 1:2 · Approved
The Thought Experiment of 1:2: Phenomenological Dependence
Four chapters distinguishing structural dependence from temporal causation. This is identified as the author's interpretation, not Maimonides' explicit terminology.
5 · 1:5–1:6 · Approved revised matrix
“One” as Equivocal: The Problem of Divine Unity
Four chapters: neither category nor body, the problem in the word “unity,” and incorporeality as the logical ground of oneness.
6 · 1:7–1:12
Divine Unity and Accommodated Scriptural Language
Unity without body, scriptural accommodation, divine emotions, and language beyond place and time.
7 · 2:1–2:2
Love, Awe, and the Contemplation of Creation
Commanded dispositions, contemplation, and wonder as the beginning.
8 · 2:3
Three Created Categories: Ontology of Change and Invariance
Changing matter and form, invariant celestial matter and form, immaterial form, and the architecture of change.
9 · 2:4–2:9
Angels, Ranks of Form, and Created Knowledge of God
The hierarchy of form, created knowledge, and the limits of each rank.
10 · 2:10
The Unity of Knower, Known, and Knowledge in God
Why divine knowledge is not external and why attribution produces a category error.
11 · 4:7
The Indescribable: Consciousness and the Invisible Seer
Berakhot 10a, the eye of the heart, reflexive knowing, and the boundary between seer and seen.
12 · 4:8
False Dichotomies: The Danger of Names
Equivocal, derivative, and amphibolous terms; nefesh and ruach; definition before division.
III. Guide, letter, and translator's apparatus
13 · Guide Introduction; I:1, I:50–57, I:64–65
In Any Language Whatsoever: The Limits of Utterance
Predication, inner and outer speech, equivocal terms, belief and conception, attributes, and the material production of speech.
14 · Guide I:46, I:64–65
The Problem of Soul-to-Soul Communication
The sensory paradox, the material bridge, and the distinction between epistemic limitation and metaphysical impossibility.
15 · Letter to Samuel Ibn Tibbon
The Translation Rule: Meaning, Not Word Order
Understand the sentence, render its sense, and recognize the gap the rule does not close.
16 · Perush ha-Millot ha-Zarot
The Glossary: Why Translation Requires Apparatus
The technical-vocabulary problem and the conceptual apparatus behind every transferred word. Bibliographic verification remains pending.
Approved reference manuscript
Approved · Complete · 8 chapters
Ibn Tibbon's Preface: A First-Person Philosophy of Translation
The complete Scholarly draft is preserved with a visible table of contents. It is the style reference for the scholarly register and remains distinct from the Emes project.
Separate existing series
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