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Review of Metaphysics, The, June, 2004

InteLex has recently released The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes in its Past Masters English Letters collection of electronic texts. The English Letters feature correspondence, journals, and notebooks from important figures from 1100-1950. The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (from the Clarendon edition) contains the definitive two volumes of letters published by Oxford University Press and edited by Noel Malcolm.

More details are available at http://www.nlx.com/titles/title122.htm.> In the March 2004 issue of this Review, a translator's note appeared on p. 549, following the translation of Leo Strauss's piece, "The Place of the Doctrine of Providence according to Maimonides." As printed this note contains certain errata, most notably regarding page references, and it is hereby corrected:

   In this early work on Maimonides, Strauss scrupulously reassembles
   some of the scattered "chapter headings" in the Guide of
   the Perplexed. He is thus able to uncover Maimonides's "decisive
   rationalism" (p. 544 n. 20) and to show strikingly that for
   Maimonides the question of (particular) providence is a theme of
   political philosophy in accord with "a genuine philosophie
   tradition" (pp. 540-3). This article plays a notable role, among
   Strauss's eleven essays and chapters on Maimonides published over
   forty years, in elucidating why for Strauss, as he puts it
   elsewhere, Maimonides was "the truly natural model, the standard
   that must be guarded against every distortion, and the
   stumbling-block on which modern rationalism falls" (Philosophy and
   Law, opening paragraph).--S.M.