- 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, 2012. CCS, 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.