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Moses Maimonides

Sluiten
First name
Moses
Last name
Maimonides
Date of Birth
[1135]
Date of Death
1204
Born in
Córdoba
Died in
Fustat

Moses Maimonides blended philosophy and halakhic authority in his writings. His major philosophical work is Moreh Nevukhim (Guide for the Perplexed), in which he ingeniously applies Aristotelian mathematics and logic to religious principles. For background: CCS, pp. 75–7; Fraenkel, 2006; Lagerlund, 2011, vol. 2, pp. 808–15; Parens, 2012CCS, pp. 75–82; Diamond, 2014. See: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/maimonides/

Maimonides—whose God (confined to thought) parallels the structure of Spinoza’s God (also confined to extension)—had a profound impact on the formative process in which Spinoza conceived and matured his original intellectual ideas and writings (CCS, pp. 58–84, esp. pp. 63–8 and 75–7). Maimonides is also quoted in the TTP.