Disgraceful! Maimonides’ Use of Qabīḥ in the Guide

IF 0.5 3区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Oriens Pub Date : 2022-09-06 DOI:10.1163/18778372-12340017

S. Harvey

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Abstract

Maimonides (d. 1204) employs three different sets of terms for good and bad in his Guide of the Perplexed I, 2: one Hebrew set (from Gen. 3:5), ṭov and raʿ; and two Arabic sets, al-ḫayr and al-šarr, and al-ḥasan and al-qabīḥ. Guide I, 2 is one of the betterknown chapters of the book – one of the first chapters the beginning student of the Guide encounters and one whose important teachings have been the subject of many valuable studies. Curiously, leading translators and scholars do not see any meaningful distinction between the two sets of Arabic terms despite Maimonides’ well-known declaration that “the diction of this Treatise has not been chosen at haphazard” (see below, n. 19). This article seeks to understand and explain why Maimonides employs two different sets of Arabic terms here for the concepts of good and bad, with special focus on qabīḥ, a key term for him in this chapter and in others in the book.

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可耻的!迈蒙尼德在《指南》中对qabr ā的使用

迈蒙尼德(公元1204年)在他的《困惑指南》第一、二章中使用了三套不同的好和坏的术语:一套希伯来语(来自创世记3:5)，ṭov和ra ā;又有两组阿拉伯文，就是al-ḫayr, al-šarr, al-ḥasan, al qab。《指南》第一、二章是本书中较为知名的章节之一，是《指南》入门学生最先接触到的章节之一，其中的重要教导已成为许多有价值研究的主题。奇怪的是，尽管迈蒙尼德著名的声明“这篇论文的措辞不是随意选择的”(见下文，n. 19)，但主要的翻译家和学者并没有看到这两套阿拉伯语术语之间有任何有意义的区别。这篇文章试图理解和解释为什么迈蒙尼德在这里使用两套不同的阿拉伯语术语来描述好和坏的概念，特别关注qabu ā，这是他在本章和书中其他章节中使用的一个关键术语。

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