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Maimonides the Rationalist
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This chapter explores Maimonides' rationalism. It shows that Maimonides did not view human reason as all-powerful. Human reason, in his judgement, is capable of acquiring broad scientific knowledge of the sublunar world and a lesser level of knowledge concerning the celestial region. Maimonides' rationalism sends out tendrils in a number of directions: it governs his exegesis of Scripture and of the non-legal — aggadic — side of rabbinic thought, creates hurdles that he has to negotiate in treating the halakhic — legal — side, leads him to a reconstruction of the early history of mankind, and shapes his conception of the highest form of human worship and human life. The chapter thus explores those subjects.
Title: Maimonides the Rationalist
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This chapter explores Maimonides' rationalism.
It shows that Maimonides did not view human reason as all-powerful.
Human reason, in his judgement, is capable of acquiring broad scientific knowledge of the sublunar world and a lesser level of knowledge concerning the celestial region.
Maimonides' rationalism sends out tendrils in a number of directions: it governs his exegesis of Scripture and of the non-legal — aggadic — side of rabbinic thought, creates hurdles that he has to negotiate in treating the halakhic — legal — side, leads him to a reconstruction of the early history of mankind, and shapes his conception of the highest form of human worship and human life.
The chapter thus explores those subjects.
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