RELG 204 Chapter Notes - Chapter The Philosophy of Maimonides: Maimonides

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 204
• Professor: Eric Caplan

Document Summary

Moses maimonides is the author of "the guide for the perplexed", which is a philosophical treatise published with intent to have intellectuals as the target audience. The reason why the target audience was intellectuals is mainly because their studies on logic, mathematics, natural science and metaphysics are what made them draw out contradictions between the torah and human reason. In fact, maimonides first main point in the first part of his disquisition that, contrary to what was stated in the. In other words, god is not a being made of flesh, but rather a spiritual entity. Moses maimonides suggests that the assumptions made by the bible about him not be taken literally. According to him, a prophet constitutes a being whose imagination is perfect and who has a well developed. Active intellect, rather than a merely good imagination as politicians, or well developed rationality, like philosophers. Furthermore, maimonides put an emphasis on the problem of evil in his treatise.